Example sentences of "when i [vb past] up [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I grew up I would become a man in the way that other girls would become nurses or teachers or whatever . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I got up I saw a friend by my side with a lot of blood , and I saw she was dead . |
| 4 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 5 | When I woke up it was with the certainty that I had solved an extremely important problem and was eager to try it out at once . |
| 6 | When I woke up it was light but Marcus was n't in the bed . |
| 7 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 8 | I do n't know ; they held me down and when I woke up I was in the back of a car on my way home . |
| 9 | When I woke up I was almost as amazed by the fair hair as I was by the sex , because both his ‘ father ’ and I are very dark . |
| 10 | When I woke up I was in some back alley . |
| 11 | Anyway , when I woke up I was pressed into the back of my seat . |
| 12 | I do not know how long I was asleep , but when I woke up I was cold and wet . |
| 13 | And when I woke up I had ants in my pants , |
| 14 | When I woke up I was in my own bed with a terrible hangover . |
| 15 | When I woke up I did n't really wan na go ! |
| 16 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 17 | It was because when I came up it was minus one in the car , cos I got er , oh thanks , I 've got a temperature thing in the car |
| 18 | Because when I went up I had to climb over the steel plate . |
| 19 | When I straightened up I heard a slight sound behind me . |
| 20 | ‘ When I looked up I was covered in blood . |
| 21 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 22 | I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble . |
| 23 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 24 | oh when I phoned up you , |
| 25 | When I phoned up she said what a lovely card ! |
| 26 | And we had to laugh , he said , well can you be ill a bit longer because he , er , he cooked her something to eat and he feeds her and so when I rang up I never got her on th , I never spoke to her for a week ! |