Example sentences of "and when i came to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 2 | This , then , was the Jamaican norm , and when I came to Britain , which was still in the throes of the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ , I found the comparative indiscipline in schools difficult to cope with . |
| 3 | I must have fainted , and when I came to I did n't know who I was or where I 'd come from . " |
| 4 | ‘ And when I came to England , I did not want to kill your Queen . |
| 5 | And when I came to it was with an audible pop in the ears , and a rich consciousness of solitude , and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in , which even now was preoccupied and unconcerned , straining out over the rose bed to adjust a loose swathe of clematis on the wooden wall . |
| 6 | Yes and when I came to , as I was saying we were clearing all half of . |
| 7 | I did not enjoy the journey to Blackpool with these grim tidings ; and when I came to the platform to deliver his message to the audience of 4,000 the hall was hushed with anticipation that something ill was in the wind . |