Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web . |
| 2 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 3 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 4 | There was something else , you know when I got the when I got my food processor |
| 5 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 7 | I was about half-way across when I felt the rear begin to swing sideways under the weight of the torrent . |
| 8 | I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten . |
| 9 | On another day when I asked the question , she began slowly and with difficulty to lift the skirts of her dress , revealing bare knees . |
| 10 | Did you see their faces when I asked the question ? ’ |
| 11 | As I say it 's when I take the bandage off at night . |
| 12 | yeah , just like erm , say a Friday or Saturday night when I take the car to go home , Sarah 's worked it out that by the time she walks upstairs and into her bedroom , she normally sees me going down Upping Road , but she does n't see me , next days it 's oh where did you go ? or what happened ? , |
| 13 | At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ? |
| 14 | . Well in that today he says er when I seen the syringe coming out I just , I 'll not be in the room if he 's getting injected . |
| 15 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 16 | It was just after eleven when I made the conifer where I 'd split from Werewolf . |
| 17 | Back in a couple hours when I get the stuff together . ’ |
| 18 | This theme will be taken up in Chapter 6 when I introduce the structuralist account of the relation between signification and social process . |
| 19 | ‘ I told you last night when I brought the evenings over how it would be . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's when I brought the kids in — I 've never been afraid to do it before and I wo n't hesitate to do it again if it is best for the club . |
| 21 | I also experienced it ( it came upon me ) when I signed the marriage register as well as when I saw the pig slaughtered . |
| 22 | ‘ The first time I came out of my shell was when I saw The Who at the Marquee . |
| 23 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 24 | I think it was when I saw the London policeman wagging a finger at a scowling urchin that I thought of Wesley Binks and the time he put the firework through the surgery letter box . |
| 25 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 26 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 27 | I went into the hall and that 's when I saw the rope . ’ |
| 28 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 29 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 30 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |