Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was just about to walk off when I pulled him back on . |
| 2 | All right up round here ideal , up and down the bumps over the guard , but when you get it out on the road , very hard work , similar sort of ride , well I suppose it will be , run around the you 've got ta push around |
| 3 | When you screw it up on top of your head it makes you look like that woman out of South Pacific , the one who sings ‘ Bali Ha'i ’ or whatever . ’ |
| 4 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 5 | Were you disappointed when you put it back on ? |
| 6 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 7 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 8 | Blood-red were his spurs i " the golden noon ; wine-red was his velvet coat ; When they shot him down on the highway , |
| 9 | Blood , blood red were his spurs , moon , rhymed red with his velvet coat , when they shot him down on the highway , down like a dog on the highway , and he lay in his blood on the highway , with a bunch of lace at his throat . |
| 10 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 11 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 12 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 13 | They hung on as the plane made an emergency dive to a lower altitude when they pulled him back on board . |
| 14 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 15 | I was in the kitchen when he played it back on the TV — I remember that day so well — and he called me into the living room to take a look . |
| 16 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 17 | The light was very bright when he switched it back on . |