Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm .
2 You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all .
3 When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients .
4 When I reach out to the big mug of coffee on the table , it is cold , and I wonder how long I 've been asleep .
5 Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning .
6 I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly .
7 There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones .
8 Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest .
9 It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage .
10 Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling .
11 When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet .
12 There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced .
13 yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting .
14 The night is cold when I get out of the car .
15 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
16 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
17 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
18 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
19 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
20 But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’
21 When I got out of the shop I felt angry with myself , and a little alarmed .
22 When I got out of the spaceship , I was n't afraid of anybody .
23 When I got out of the ditch I felt very shocked , and unable to believe that he had missed me .
24 When I got out on the street , I would just keep going .
25 When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it .
26 When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate .
27 When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky .
28 I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room .
29 When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs .
30 When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone .
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