Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 2 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |
| 3 | But when I ran away from the orphanage , I was so nearly trapped again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I sit here with the laibon and his family I feel envious of their flimsy values . |
| 7 | Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning . |
| 8 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 9 | There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones . |
| 10 | Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest . |
| 11 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 12 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 13 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 14 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 15 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 16 | The night is cold when I get out of the car . |
| 17 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 18 | Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning . |
| 19 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 20 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 21 | So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef ! |
| 22 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ? |
| 24 | When I got out of the shop I felt angry with myself , and a little alarmed . |
| 25 | When I got out of the spaceship , I was n't afraid of anybody . |
| 26 | When I got out of the ditch I felt very shocked , and unable to believe that he had missed me . |
| 27 | When I got out on the street , I would just keep going . |
| 28 | When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it . |
| 29 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 30 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |