Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Im say that er , you know sound it a sort t'ing for big people cause when me get stab up whe me go say , me mudder go star% argue wiv me , because when most of the time when you go sound you know trouble an " all that does arise . |
| 2 | when I ran to catch the bus from school |
| 3 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 4 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 5 | Fingers come round , things go in and out of my mouth but even when I venture to open my eyes I see nothing . |
| 6 | Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) . |
| 7 | ‘ When I wish to kill — I kill . ’ |
| 8 | When I paused to read the memorial to Jose Rizal , hero of the revolution , I turned round to find about 50 little children in a semicircle watching me open-mouthed . |
| 9 | Sweat was running from my temples , stinging at the corners of my eyes , and when I paused to wipe them Edward shouted , ‘ Come on , come on , give me the bloody axe . ’ |
| 10 | They wanted them all back when I agreed to sell — at their price — but I said I 'd spilt coffee on some of them and thrown them away . |
| 11 | I indicated to the Bishop when I agreed to take the canonry that he did n't possess the personal qualities I require in my subordinates . |
| 12 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 13 | When I 'd done with Shepard and the wasp , Shadwell put his arm round me . |
| 14 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 15 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
| 16 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 17 | Even so , it set up a security precaution that had occurred to me when I 'd seen the cylinder . |
| 18 | when I 'd seen there was a problem there , then I just |
| 19 | When I 'd asked Chola what the ceremony was for she 'd said she did n't know : they 'd always done it . |
| 20 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 21 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 22 | Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? " |
| 23 | I found that out when I 'd pressed the bell and no one came . |
| 24 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 25 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 26 | I 'd planned to go back to Australia when I 'd made enough . |
| 27 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 28 | And I felt worse , as I stumbled away , remembering Gharr 's laughter when I 'd struck him . |
| 29 | When I 'd extracted my head from the carrying rope , Kāli untied the bale and started scooping up armloads of pine-needles and throwing them to the top of the pile . |
| 30 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |