Example sentences of "when [pers pn] come [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 2 | When I came up to live here ? |
| 3 | I will , I felt maybe er when I came up to see , oh I was having all these heavy sweatings . |
| 4 | So if I mess it up then now , when you come over to pick me up later it shall still be messed up ? |
| 5 | When you come out to do the same session two weeks later , you know that you can do it , so you can afford to go a little faster . |
| 6 | When you came upstairs to say father had collapsed , did n't you think it was very odd , the way Francis rushed down without a word ? ’ |
| 7 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 8 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 9 | Remember that day , Master Harry , when she came up to see you and the two of you hid in that there pavilion ? ’ |
| 10 | His niece , Cathy Carne , found him when she came back to open the shop after lunch . |
| 11 | When she came in to see her , Ma 's eyes would fill with tears — and then Lily would very nearly give in . |
| 12 | When we came up to see it well it was a brand spanking new |
| 13 | Mohan Lal was waiting for us when we came out to breakfast on 31 October . |
| 14 | In the interval of my concert , he took the cellos away to ensure that the passage was perfect when we came back to play it — now there is real dedication and real generosity ! |
| 15 | ‘ He ran out when we came in to get you . ’ |
| 16 | We 'll see them when we come back to collect the others . |
| 17 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 18 | ‘ Joining the ERM is not a prize to be given to our partners when they come up to scratch , but a benefit to ourselves if only we would take it , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Humanity had brought many things along , inadvertently , when it came out to populate the stars-unseen stowaways like bacteria , flies , fleas . |
| 20 | But when it comes down to concrete moral judgements and commitments , such abstractions will be found interpreted in opposing ways . |
| 21 | Iain Macleod had tears in his eyes when he came up to congratulate Mollie . |
| 22 | Garrick Morgan and Warwick Waugh were well matched by the Monmouthshire pair of Tony Rees and Mike Voyle yesterday , and the experienced Rod McCall made little difference when he came on to replace Morgan . |
| 23 | But then in the sermons when he came here to preach er I did n't see any sign of nervousness myself . |
| 24 | But when he came along to tell her it was dinnertime he persuaded her to come down . |
| 25 | He works in Lipton 's , near to our shop , but I only really met him when he came in to order baby clothes . ’ |
| 26 | When he came in to put some logs on the sitting-room fire he could not restrain a sob , kneeling there with his back to the coffee-table . |
| 27 | She was still giving forth when he came in to investigate . |
| 28 | When he came in to find her , she was standing on her head in a sexy leotard , legs provocatively parted . |
| 29 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |
| 30 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |