Example sentences of "[adv prt] when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 2 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 3 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ This place was very run down when we bought it , ’ she said , looking round lovingly . |
| 5 | Do n't bother about taking anything down when you see me shaking my head . ’ |
| 6 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 7 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 8 | I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly . |
| 9 | Caesar , down when I tell you , ’ the young man shouted . |
| 10 | On another occasion , we could all hear a loud buzzing noise in the office and were frantically trying to track it down when I realised what it was . |
| 11 | a choc ice and pear , going down when I had her |
| 12 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 13 | about four weeks I do n't know whether how would that went down when he phoned her and told her . |
| 14 | The garden gradually got all tangled and interesting and took a little longer to patrol since the other cats took advantage and tried to be clever , creeping in when they thought I would n't notice . |
| 15 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 16 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 17 | The side door to the house swung in when he touched it probably only locked at night . |
| 18 | Mercer Lorrimore appeared tentatively in the bar doorway and came in when he saw me . |
| 19 | Rory sucked his breath in when he saw it ; most of the pin must be inside the boy 's foot , near the middle of the broadest part of the sole . |
| 20 | if Derek and he went away last weekend he perhaps stuffed it in here but then he drops it in when he finds it |
| 21 | Julia was about to let her in when she saw what she had in her mouth . |
| 22 | She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name . |
| 23 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 24 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 25 | Maggie was thankfully drinking the tea , the pain-killer still on the tray , when Felipe arrived , knocking on the door and striding in when she opened it . |
| 26 | Do fill it in when you return your subs for 1991 if you want to get more involved . |
| 27 | This arises because of the way the knitting pulls in when you take it off the machine . |
| 28 | Yeah but Geoff if you keep a record when you took money in when you draw it out . |
| 29 | You hand it in when you reach your destination . |
| 30 | His colleague , the poet Thomas Gray , six years his senior , was becoming concerned for his reputation in other respects by 1747 when he wrote to his friend Thomas Warton about Smart 's conduct : ‘ His debts daily increase ( you remember the state they were in when you left us ) ’ . |