Example sentences of "when you [vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 2 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 3 | ‘ You asked me if the garage had returned my car , when you 'd got it under lock and key all the time ! ’ |
| 4 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 5 | when you wanted to do something with the keys or operate er horizontal , there was a machine and you had to go to the do it yourself . |
| 6 | When you wanted to shift it to the Parquet . ’ |
| 7 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 8 | I , I mean the , the conversation started off and when , when you started to ask him about his existing or his previous pensionable employment as a carpenter he really had n't got a clue as to what it was all about . |