Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] to [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I wrote to him it did n't work out ; he was much too polite and too adoring I do n't want to be adored , I want to be used and abused , I want to be treated with contempt . |
| 2 | And er , when I went to me I found out it in the post It was in the post , that I was picked . |
| 3 | So I , when I proved to you it did n't work you were satisfied . |
| 4 | And when she came to me she was already pregnant . ’ |
| 5 | But when she came to me she just said : ‘ How are things going with your single — what 's involved ? ’ |
| 6 | When she came to us we packaged her new hardback in a larger format and spent a lot more on the artwork — foil on the cover , head and tail bands — which made the books look that much more special . |
| 7 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
| 8 | When men looked at her it was normally with admiration ; when they spoke to her it was with the awe they felt when confronted by her beauty . |
| 9 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
| 10 | We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence . |
| 11 | I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush . |
| 12 | When it came to it he could n't kill the happiness he saw in her . |
| 13 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 14 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 15 | When it happened to me I just could not believe it . |
| 16 | The Rev Anthony Freeman said he felt a great sense of relief when he admitted to himself he did not hold to the traditional view of God . |
| 17 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 18 | She was appalled when he explained to her she would be required to pose in a picture frame . |