Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 32 | When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . |
| 33 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 34 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 35 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 36 | Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna . |
| 37 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 38 | A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago . |
| 39 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 40 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 41 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 42 | for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill . |
| 43 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 44 | When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand . |
| 45 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 46 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 47 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 48 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 49 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 50 | When I walk out of the house and through the square on my way to a final peaceful meditation at my favourite bay view in trigo cebada , the young man from last night comes out of a doorway with a large cassette in his arms . |
| 51 | ‘ You 're saying then that when I walk out of the church I 'm on my own . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 53 | But the dream , ‘ When I come up on the Pools ’ became the Fifties equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo for the Edwardians . |
| 54 | When I come out of the , I 'd a th thing I never told you which you should have known , when I come out of the war there were , we was only getting twenty seven and tanner a week in the stables . |
| 55 | When I come out of the , I 'd a th thing I never told you which you should have known , when I come out of the war there were , we was only getting twenty seven and tanner a week in the stables . |
| 56 | When I come out into the light at the end , I look for the white van . |
| 57 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 58 | Then , when I come back with the welding torch , no sign of the bastard . |
| 59 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 60 | I tell you what I 'll speak to you when I come back from the chippie yeah |