Example sentences of "and when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when they 'd finished gurgling and sniggering at teach other , he went on . |
| 32 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 33 | With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club . |
| 34 | But after the first explorations and when they had absorbed the impact of the delight of the situation , the girl began to be restless . |
| 35 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 36 | The men went into the little cabin and when they had eaten they thanked Babushka and went off to sleep . |
| 37 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 38 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 39 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 40 | And when they had reached the place where the mine widened |
| 41 | Sadly , they turned to leave , and when they had gone , Nancy fell to the ground in a storm of tears . |
| 42 | And when they had drunk their coffee it was Sara who broke the spell . |
| 43 | On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them . |
| 44 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 45 | They just chomped , and when they had finished , the podgy leader rose and quietly asked McGurk if there was somewhere they could talk to him in private . |
| 46 | During these initial months Blake was intensively interrogated by MI6 and when they had finished in November 1961 the question arose as to where Blake was to serve his sentence . |
| 47 | They both ate hungrily , and when they had finished , and were sipping their cafés noirs , and the tiny glasses of wonderful rough marc de bourgogne , Isobel leaned back with a smile . |
| 48 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 49 | And when they had dined , the remainder was divided among them to carry home to their families . ’ |
| 50 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 51 | The two girls were silent as they cooked and when they had to speak to one another spoke in quick , urgent whispers . |
| 52 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 53 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 54 | And when they do wake up to the situation , they find that the combat against relativism is not a clean , hand-to-hand fight but a wearing war of nerves against an enemy who is everywhere and nowhere , friendly but deadly at the same time . |
| 55 | This is because at first they lack the strength to hurt , and when they do acquire it they quickly learn that a too-powerful play-attack ends the enjoyable encounter . |
| 56 | The travellers say they 've already started a clean-up operation and when they do go , nobody will ever know they were there . |
| 57 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 58 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 59 | Large end plates tend to ‘ stick ’ to sea beds when grounding and when they do come off have been known to carry around lumps of the said seabed for some time . |
| 60 | But they are supremely experienced in the process of discovery , and when they do play older repertory they always do it with a sense of looking freshly at the notes , taking nothing for granted . |