Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adv] " 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 He 'll have disappeared when I turn round , she thought .
3 Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down !
4 Where we practise in England — I wo n't reveal where — Pete 's always there when I turn up .
5 You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all .
6 What am I going to say to him when I turn up empty-handed ? ’
7 Well you will be able to when I turn around .
8 In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord .
9 I believe I hurt them when I ran away , and with my way of life .
10 When I ran away I was going to the beach , but as I got near it I recognized someone I was avoiding .
11 But when I ran away from the orphanage , I was so nearly trapped again .
12 Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) .
13 When I ran out of breath I 'd come up for another helping , then duck the head again .
14 Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room .
15 I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait .
16 When I ran out , I 'd paint the white ones brown ! ’
17 When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients .
18 When I reach out to the big mug of coffee on the table , it is cold , and I wonder how long I 've been asleep .
19 ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me .
20 But somehow I just managed to miss Leading Aircraftsman by two per cent when I passed out .
21 I wanted to be Agnetha , the blonde one , when I grew up . ’
22 Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) .
23 As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work .
24 When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them .
25 When I grew up , opera had all the allure of a thé dansant on Bournemouth pier .
26 When I grew up I would become a man in the way that other girls would become nurses or teachers or whatever .
27 I got full marks for composition at school by cribbing the life of Albert Schweitzer and claiming I wanted to be a missionary when I grew up .
28 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 .
29 I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they !
30 ‘ You eat like a sparrow , ’ he said , when I declined more than nine oysters .
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