Example sentences of "[adv] and when [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 2 | ‘ The service to the frontmen was n't good enough and when we did get the ball to them , we immediately gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |
| 4 | After he recovered , he took great care of his health , finding every ray of sunshine to sit in and when it rained , still resolutely taking the air , under the porch . |
| 5 | The food was not in and when she pressed the bell underfoot there was no response . |
| 6 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 7 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 8 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 9 | On his first day of arrival he was told the authorities had closed EuroDisney down and when he asked why , he was told someone had reported to the authorities that a six foot mouse was walking round the day before . |
| 10 | I do n't know ; they held me down and when I woke up I was in the back of a car on my way home . |
| 11 | Fernando laughed out loud and when he 'd finished he clasped her hand to his lips . |
| 12 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 13 | I think I was mentally prepared for gay liberation in 1970 when it came along and when I did encounter it it swept me along quite easily . |
| 14 | ‘ Your mother … ? ’ she asked swiftly and when she saw the surprise in his eyes she went on hurriedly , ‘ Sybil told me . ’ |
| 15 | I thought she might not be there long and when she left I could stop her and try to persuade her . |
| 16 | The hedgehog and vole went into the tunnel together and when they came out they were in Sergeant 's garden . |
| 17 | Guests were too frightened to call an ambulance straight away and when one arrived Suzanne 's brain had been starved of oxygen . |
| 18 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 19 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 20 | She drank thirstily and when she put the bottle down , there was milk all over her lips , the bright whiteness of it shining on her face . |
| 21 | Oh yes , all down there that 's where they bombed when the war was on and when they killed the people in the town . |
| 22 | Mahmoud came in again later on and when we asked for books he said that we could have encyclopedias . |
| 23 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 24 | Far too quickly and when he left for Oman , I felt that aching void which , after decades of marriage , never lessened when he and I separated to travel alone . |
| 25 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 26 | He slept deeply and when he awoke he was refreshed . |
| 27 | I had a day off and when I came back there was a big trophy sitting there in the shop . |
| 28 | She very rarely got told off and when she did it upset her . |
| 29 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 30 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |