Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 4 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 5 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 6 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 7 | When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If you get through all right , I 'll take you with me when I go down to the village after evening milking . |
| 9 | Yes I know I 'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting , do n't like bothering with it on Thursday because they 've always got a shop full and I go |
| 10 | When I go back to the police station I 'll write today that I 've been at Harlowbury School all day doing a school visit and a school talk to different classes . |
| 11 | I should save that type of language for when I go back to the West Indies . |
| 12 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 13 | When I go out to the shops — you know , to get stuff like milk or fags for Marie or summat — I always stop a bit and watch them . |
| 14 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 15 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
| 16 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 17 | There is a lot you can do when you get back to the original mix tape , but for us the mix was all part of the creative process and I do n't really want to remix stuff . |
| 18 | Do n't worry , man , when you get back to the West Indies , you can forget her . |
| 19 | And when you get back to the There we are . |
| 20 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 21 | Charlie could n't understand his sister 's PS : ‘ Where will you live when you get back to the East End ? ’ |
| 22 | yet when you go round to the house he 's sociable enough |
| 23 | ‘ If you 're tired , Miss Lea , I suggest you catch up on some sleep when you go back to the hotel . |
| 24 | It means that when you go along to the social services , register and it 's above board children 's work that you are doing . |
| 25 | But then when you refer back to the original restraint imposed by the erm existing policy . |
| 26 | It 's fairly important that as , when you walk up to the ball you 're body is in line with , where you want to be . |
| 27 | But in that case is it a bit like the report where you , you , you 've got this quite radical introduction and then when you come on to the , the bits at the end it 's , it is really quite moderate ? |
| 28 | jus just ignore pretend he 's not here , carry on when you come down to the referrals bit |
| 29 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 30 | Bryony if you 're going to walk you need hold on to there because when you hang on to the handle it 's too high and you tip it over . |