Example sentences of "and when i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , I said to her , I said , do n't you tell me you 're gon na come on a Sunday morning and when I get here , you 're not up , I says cos I wo n't be very happy about it ! |
| 2 | ‘ I 'as to save up for the fare , and when I get there it 's nearly time to come back , ’ Ella said . |
| 3 | I can manage and when I get home there is a good neighbour who will — ’ |
| 4 | He blinked , and when I looked again , his eyes were light blue , childlike in their innocence . |
| 5 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 6 | anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the |
| 7 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 8 | And when I got home , poor ma was dead and I was the one on me own ! |
| 9 | If I could n't produce a marriage date , and Nigel could n't officially be registered dead without it , perhaps he was n't , because legally he could n't be , and when I got home I 'd find … |
| 10 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 11 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 12 | It 's this really creepy area , a dead-end road in a red-light district , and when I got there I discovered I did n't have my key and he was n't in , so I was locked out . |
| 13 | I jogged , sprinted towards my inanimate friend and when I got there I was so relieved I wanted to cry . |
| 14 | And when I got there I stayed there , it was the safest place to be . |
| 15 | There was a bobby on the beat facing me , waiting for me to come to him , and when I got there , the lads are still sitting there . |
| 16 | I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him . |
| 17 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 18 | My mother also had it and when I had previously attempted to diet and had successfully lost weight there was little improvement , if any , to the appearance of my ugly dimpled thighs , that is until I went on my low fat diet . |
| 19 | To go out at midnight in heavy rain or frost , as I sometimes did , when I would be working next morning and when I had hardly seen my wife all day , almost broke me . |
| 20 | And even when I learned you were a prying journalist — and when I 've always preferred my walks to be solitary — what do I find but that I 'm asking if you would like to walk with me ! ’ |
| 21 | And when I walked away I thought , oh fancy saying that but I 'd said it , it was too bloody late . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’ |
| 24 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 25 | Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down ! |
| 26 | And when I came ashore — I 'd been there a week — he gave me ten bob . |
| 27 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
| 28 | from her , training that er Princess Marina , and said oh this is Joy and this is Jenny and er , she 's done well and when I came away Jenny went just in front of me into Sue who works for me Sue she 's , she 's the , the area , the area manager |
| 29 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 30 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |