Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 2 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 3 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 4 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 5 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 6 | And you , Rose , if you want to be useful you may keep everyone away , run any errands I may require , and take over from , or help McAllister , when I tell you to . |
| 7 | These I knew well were not what her whim had remembered , and when I brought them to her she said nothing , but put them aside , sadly shaking her head . |
| 8 | Dad said to me , ‘ Just imagine if you had packed it in when I told you to ! |
| 9 | Speaking of which , why did n't you marry that lieutenant when I told you to ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why did n't you go when I told you to ? ’ |
| 11 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 12 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 13 | When I put you to bed you were high as a kite . ’ |
| 14 | So I er when I said it to him , on top I made a good job I says . |
| 15 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 16 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 17 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 18 | When I took you to church and gave you your name , he did not come . |
| 19 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 20 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 21 | Just remember , when I want you to be familiar , I 'll let you know . |
| 22 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 23 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 24 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 25 | One of my sisters got quite hysterical when I did it to her , so Mum had to give her a good shaking ! |
| 26 | He , too , was shocked to hear that my great expectations came from the prisoner I had helped so long ago , and when I introduced him to our guest , Herbert could hardly hide his dislike . |
| 27 | It 's one of these things that sound much more complicated than when I explain it to you . |
| 28 | Dr Burstead — when I gave it to him he put it in his mouth and bit it to see that it was a good 'un . |
| 29 | When I mentioned them to my dealer he said it was due to the stress of being shipped and that the fish was actually recovering . |
| 30 | At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant . |