Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 2 | Erm I came when I came in England I came here . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry about what happened when you came to the house , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Marc swivelled when he came to the window , his black shape outlined against the dying embers of the sun and his face in shadow . |
| 5 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 6 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |
| 7 | I was so upset and shocked when I came to the hospital and you were gone I could of died . |
| 8 | Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . |
| 9 | They made a dam on the stream , which was something they often did when they came to the spinney . |
| 10 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 11 | Well he , he did when he came in here , he picked up his and he looked round and it was all very different and then |
| 12 | One or two of the healthier children cried when he came near them ; he moved resignedly away on these occasions , as though this reaction were entirely natural . |
| 13 | They smiled when she came into the room . |
| 14 | And here , where we 're standing now , this is the act place where the train always whistled when it came round the bend . |
| 15 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 16 | Rhoda said when she came to tea at the weekend , ‘ You only remember what you want to remember , Ken ; serve you right . |
| 17 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 18 | Yeah but then dad said when he came in that , he 'd heard that the middle of it had gone . |
| 19 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 20 | He said when I come in here first |
| 21 | The jobs they had when they came to Britain were menial , jobs that nobody else would deign to do . |
| 22 | The man on the horse saw and wondered , just as he had when he came to a bend in the road outside the city and saw the panorama of classical buildings and shining Avon . |
| 23 | The result was a striking contrast to the dull brown tinged with grey that Pamela had when she came into the salon . |
| 24 | I read a lot of books , and I knew the theory of it very well , but I failed when it came to the practice . |
| 25 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |
| 26 | He also knew what he wanted when it came to the matter of his monument . |
| 27 | If you walk east from the Telephone Bar and Grill , you arrive at the block where Eleanor Marx stayed when she came to New York . |
| 28 | Dexter , for all his patience and intelligence in most matters , faltered when it came to the moment to arrest the people he investigated . |