Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 2 | when I finally got to the start line at 9.41 am I started to pick my way through the crowd , with difficulty . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 4 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 5 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 6 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 7 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 8 | ‘ And you knew nothing about his family when you finally succumbed to his persuasion ? ’ |
| 9 | In fact , I was shattered when you never replied to my letter . ’ |
| 10 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 11 | When she finally went to the family planning clinic , the woman she saw was not very sympathetic , she said " What school do you go to ? " and when I told her she said " You 've really thrown away your chances . " " |
| 12 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 13 | When she actually spoke to the guy she was quite amiable . |
| 14 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 15 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 16 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 17 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 18 | When we actually went to competitive tender , which was for a route improvement down near Leicester , they undercut us . |
| 19 | The drama created a desire , a need for knowledge , which was useful to them — and when they later returned to their drama they were far more committed to it . |
| 20 | Robson was ruled out after a week-long struggle to overcome a niggling calf injury in the hope of helping United put right their Wembley disappointment in last year 's final , when they surprisingly succumbed to Second Division Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 21 | DIESEL 'S two Es — environment and economy — were the deciding factors for West Country vet Neal King and his wife Joyce when they both switched to oil-burners two years ago . |
| 22 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 23 | His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 . |
| 24 | When they originally emerged to the sound of trumpets , I had no means of recording their genes . |
| 25 | And the N U S , you know it is , in a way it is a good thing but in a way it is n't because when they were actual when they actually belonged to the N U S erm they were n't get because it 's a small university , they were n't getting much funding from the US er the N U S or erm any support really . |
| 26 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 27 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 28 | Grainne had known that when it finally came to it , she would be afraid — for I have never known anyone other than Fergus , and with Fergus it was so natural and so sweet — but she had not expected this sudden rush of tenderness . |
| 29 | When it actually came to writing rather than vaguely thinking about his address , Henry found it more difficult than he had expected . |
| 30 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |