Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Naturally I say , ‘ Hang on a minute ’ , and when I turn round she is off in the kitchen banging saucepans about .
2 Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down !
3 In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord .
4 When I ran away I was going to the beach , but as I got near it I recognized someone I was avoiding .
5 When I grew up I would become a man in the way that other girls would become nurses or teachers or whatever .
6 I surveyed the scene around me and vowed that when I grew up I would marry a rich man who would carry me away from all this noise and squalor .
7 When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for .
8 I was delighted to be informed that I was one of the prize winners , but my delight turned to disappointment when I realised just what accepting the prize would involve .
9 When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’
10 Oh , all the important people were Quaker families when I lived there you see ?
11 And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . "
12 When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there .
13 ‘ This was a vacant lot when I drove past it on my way to headquarters earlier this evening . ’
14 That was that was the other thing when you filled in the C C Q , that 's when I filled in my own one , you put in the death
15 ‘ I 'as to save up for the fare , and when I get there it 's nearly time to come back , ’ Ella said .
16 But when I get there I ca n't find no way out .
17 When he entered into Calpurnia an army officer came to him and tricking him and saying , sir , my manservant is laid up in the house with paralysis being terribly tormented , he said to him when I get there I will cure her in reply the army officer said sir , I am not a fit man for you to enter under my roof , but just say the word and my manservant will be healed
18 Yes she wrote to me , I 'll tell you what when I get back I 'll pop her letter in the post to you she seems alright .
19 up when I get back I suppose .
20 Well when I next go , you know , when I get back I 'll give you a ring .
21 And he said thank goodness , h he said oh they got and I said yeah I 've got Monday and Tuesday off he said , it might have died down when I get back he said cos us drivers take all the stick .
22 I know that when I get out I 'll make something of myself this time . ’
23 When I get home I 'll make Marie and Annie a Christmas card .
24 I always eat well at university at lunch time , including a pudding , because I know that when I get home I will have to eat minute quantities .
25 ‘ I read so much at work that when I get home I just want to watch Jeremy Beadle ! ’
26 So that when I get home I can say that 1 did it . ’
27 Er , when I get home I 've got to have my dinner , got to get changed
28 yeah when I get home I am I 'll just stick that in the there 's er a , a pie
29 When I get home I 'll have a cheese sandwich or summat
30 My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’
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