Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er anyhow to me I enjoyed it when I knew some of the children . |
| 2 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 3 | when I had some breakfast . |
| 4 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 5 | This was further demonstrated by the fact that , when I murmured some apologies that I must leave , he insisted on my staying for some tea . |
| 6 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 7 | At first sight the signatures of the two deceased seemed to be the same , but when I examined some of the fillings more closely I saw that they were quite new . |
| 8 | I arrived at my quarter at what time I do not know due to me being very intoxicated and when I awoke some hours later I discovered the following ’ . |
| 9 | In a last ditch attempt to save face , I invaded the pitch on my moped but was thrown off , to howls of laughter , when I hit some particularly nasty divots . |
| 10 | When I needed some black shoes for the annual ASP banquet in Honolulu , Bodo van der Leeden dug out a pair he 'd bought fifteen years before . |
| 11 | ‘ Last monsoon when I needed some musk to rub on a snake-bite , I did n't have to look far . |
| 12 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 13 | When I found some it had a strange smell — of sweet and sour sauce — and it seemed to be very moist . |
| 14 | when I wanted some help or who to invite to meetings but because I have n't got a reply from everyone or most people , it ca n't work does it ? |
| 15 | He told him not to do that , he said just pay when you got some and |
| 16 | When you got some bad weather the roads in Leicester start falling |
| 17 | And that made it all the more thrilling , especially when she recalled some of the women he 'd been photographed with . |
| 18 | Midwife Christine Hall told the hearing that she could not remember whether she notified the registrar when she noticed some deceleration in the heartbeat at 4.25pm but did so when she became worried at 7.30pm . |
| 19 | She thought that the first thing she would do when she earned some money would be to buy a house or a caravan like they had in Turpin 's Field , so that whatever happened they could all be together , safe for ever and ever . |
| 20 | And of course , when Corrie left , changed into her new suit , her mother , emotional after the ceremony , had had another little upset at the fact that she was going away too , just when she needed some comfort for one daughter 's departure . |
| 21 | When she emerged some fifteen minutes later she found David dressed in sweatshirt and jeans , apparently waiting for her . |
| 22 | DR ALBAN met his girlfriend when she tried some clothes on in his Stockholm boutique … |
| 23 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 24 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 25 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 26 | By the evening we were lined up with our small bundles , hopefully waiting for a returning plane , when we spotted some of our nice soldiers from Maymyo . |
| 27 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 28 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 29 | We did kitchen when we bought some carpet cleaner did n't we ? |
| 30 | When we moved some six years later to a small town again , in Berkshire , I found I was more competent in the three Rs than any other school child of my own age . |