Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I can manage and when I get home there is a good neighbour who will — ’ |
| 32 | It 's long hours and when I get in I 've seen enough shoes to last me a life-time . ’ |
| 33 | Cos we , when I get in I get chosen by other fire station |
| 34 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 35 | When I got past I 'd put my head up again , as if to say , ‘ I do n't care ’ . |
| 36 | When I got upstairs I found Abu Salim , which did nothing for my confidence , |
| 37 | When I got up I saw a friend by my side with a lot of blood , and I saw she was dead . |
| 38 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 39 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 40 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 41 | When I got indoors I was still so upset that I tore off the frock , ripping a sleeve in the process , but I did n't care ; I was so angry . |
| 42 | And when I got through I knew immediately by the tone of her voice that she was , there was something wrong . |
| 43 | When I got through she made a kind of whistling noise through her teeth . |
| 44 | When I got downstairs I could see the drawing-room light was on so I thought they must still be up , I 'll go and see if they want a snack . |
| 45 | When I got closer I found it to be empty and forgotten ; cattle grazed up to its outer walls , its projecting porch was thick with ivy , its gardens with nettles . |
| 46 | That when I got here they would n't be missing anymore . |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | I thought she was a friend but when I got here she had changed . |
| 49 | ‘ But when I got here it was very cold . ’ |
| 50 | When I got here I discovered she did n't live in the town any longer . |
| 51 | When I got home he was already in his room , whistling away cheerfully . |
| 52 | ‘ When I got home I called the NRA freephone pollution number and I was told it was too dark and cold for anyone to go down and somebody would be there first thing in the morning . |
| 53 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 54 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 55 | 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 … |
| 56 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 57 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 58 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 59 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 60 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |