Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 5 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 6 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 7 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 13 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 17 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 18 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 23 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 24 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you get through all right , I 'll take you with me when I go down to the village after evening milking . |
| 30 | Yes I know I 'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting , do n't like bothering with it on Thursday because they 've always got a shop full and I go |