Example sentences of "[coord] when i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he 's finished his ballet routine — ‘ Lots of people come to see what Joe Mangle is going to do , and when I appear on stage doing my best arabesque , you can feel people thinking ‘ Oh no , he 's really lost the plot ’ — he throws out a few one-liners . |
| 2 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 3 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 4 | But when I put on Love of Colours I could n't lie still . |
| 5 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 6 | I hit the ball great on the range but when I get on the course it all goes wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 9 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |