Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why settle for the predictable , it demanded , when nothing truly attuned to the precarious magic of being alive can ever be predicted ? |
| 2 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 3 | when I finally got to the start line at 9.41 am I started to pick my way through the crowd , with difficulty . |
| 4 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 5 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've smiled before , because I 've been forced to , and now we 've had three hit singles I 'll smile when I fuckin' want to . ’ |
| 7 | She splits me off from you lot , I 'm really fucked off actually cos like when I just go to dinner I just go with bloody Marina and then I sit there and I just do n't say a word and no one ever talks to me . |
| 8 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 9 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 10 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 11 | But only when I really want to . |
| 12 | ‘ And you knew nothing about his family when you finally succumbed to his persuasion ? ’ |
| 13 | And then there are the things you get when you actually go to a destination . |
| 14 | Wi with with with all due respect you know we we we 're talking about the precision of the word and when you actually come to a ten point scale there will be some imprecision anyway in the is it a six ? |
| 15 | So when you actually come to erm , try and influence somebody , you you 're actual behaviour in there is based on sound er preparation , sound positive thoughts . |
| 16 | but they 're not relevant to that so when you actually come to that you fill in all the relevant details |
| 17 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 18 | In fact , I was shattered when you never replied to my letter . ’ |
| 19 | Take advantage of any chance for discussion , especially if you are able to give your employer a date in the not too distant future when you realistically expect to be fit enough to resume work . |
| 20 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 21 | When she finally went to the family planning clinic , the woman she saw was not very sympathetic , she said " What school do you go to ? " and when I told her she said " You 've really thrown away your chances . " " |
| 22 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 23 | When she actually spoke to the guy she was quite amiable . |
| 24 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 25 | When we finally get to the house I will show you something and maybe you will change your mind about many things . ’ |
| 26 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 27 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 28 | When we eventually get to it the Visitor Centre there explains with diagrams and scientific data why this is the driest place in Australia . |
| 29 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 30 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |