Example sentences of "and when i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then the noise of the avalanche had died away , only the echoes of it reverberating across the valley , and when I shifted into the driving seat and looked back , the road behind us had ceased to exist . |
| 2 | And when I asked yo and when I said to her , you were in toilet she got up and she ran across there ! |
| 3 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 4 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 5 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |
| 6 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 7 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 8 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 9 | Jim pointed out that and when I looked at , in the report here , page fifteen , two of your paper and there it says in little letters B , little little two appendix B a during the year , a three year period from June ninety three to October ninety six , the level of occupancy the department 's afford . |
| 10 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 11 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
| 12 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 13 | And when I got to the clinic everyone was in a mess because half the domestic staff had disappeared , walked out without a word . |
| 14 | I collected what I needed , and when I got to the counter I found that she and her neighbours were discussing the train accident . |
| 15 | So I hung around in the sun a couple of hours and when I got to the station there 's a car in the car-park with the old guy in the back , and he has friends . ’ |
| 16 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 17 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 18 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 19 | I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed . |
| 20 | I did n't put any lights on , and when I got into this room I was thankful I had n't . |
| 21 | Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair . |
| 22 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 23 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 24 | And when I ask about their installed base they change the subject . ’ |
| 25 | Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity … |
| 26 | That is I think that when I refer to and when I refer to I am referring to the same thing |
| 27 | And when I refer to the erm primary road network defined in the T P P . |
| 28 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |
| 29 | It was wonderful to see so many people and when I walked into the room I was actually quite terrified . |
| 30 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |