Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got home for Christmas he just said " What about listening to me now ? |
| 2 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
| 3 | When I went below for visits I found her eating dates and musing on Lawrence 's alleged masochistic sexuality . |
| 4 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 5 | When you went home for — for whatever it was ? ’ |
| 6 | And you went to school in the morning but never knew whether your house was going to be there when you got home for dinner or whether you 'd still have a mum and dad and |
| 7 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |
| 8 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 9 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 10 | When we came home for tea , Mummy would still be ironing . |
| 11 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 12 | One thing that made John happy when he went home for Christmas 1944 and the New Year was the presence in Johannesburg of his father 's new friend , Phyllis Hirsch . |
| 13 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 14 | Odd that Johnson did not take note of Strichen , whose development was in full swing when he called there for his Wednesday lunch . |