Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This was a vacant lot when I drove past it on my way to headquarters earlier this evening . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But when I got here it was very cold . ’ |
| 3 | When I got there it had gone . ’ |
| 4 | There was skid marks all over and the traffic was right back down the A seventeen , when I got there it |
| 5 | so when I got there it was just a case of clearing up . |
| 6 | I mean we when I when I came here it was virtually , virtually half , half the population of that . |
| 7 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 8 | Well , she said let me more than welcome but umm well when she came home it was in the suede pouch and she said well here y'are , here 's you 're watch , you know . |
| 9 | When she spoke again it was slowly and with great emphasis . |
| 10 | When she spoke again it was with a sneer . |
| 11 | But when we got here it was worse . |
| 12 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 13 | Th everybody Yeah there was noise and that but er when we got there it had normally quietened down . |
| 14 | But when we got there it was all right . |
| 15 | When we got there it was really crowded and very city like , with large buildings and lights . |
| 16 | Of course , in England we were used to er especially at the beginning of the war , we had tea in the afternoon of course , and er when we got there it was dinner at night , with you know , meat and vegetables every night , that sort of thing , so it was quite a surprise . |
| 17 | When we started here it looked er but we 'll only get actually six weeks , said you 've got six weeks work , that 's all . |
| 18 | Well then , when they went there it were , it were grass fields all round them , were n't it ? |
| 19 | They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it . |
| 20 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 21 | The dirty water surged with its spume of saliva , and when it roared again it roared with the fury of the storm . |
| 22 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 23 | When he spoke again it was with more confidence . |
| 24 | But when he spoke again it was only to express some anxiety about the conduct of the services while he was away . |
| 25 | When he spoke again it was a low persuasive tone . |
| 26 | For a long time he stood in front of the town map , gazing at it as though he would memorise its every feature , and when he turned away it was to ask for a cup of coffee . |
| 27 | When he awoke again it was seven . |