Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 3 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 4 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 5 | Jessamy was halfway to the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she kept her drawing materials , when she came to a sudden halt . |
| 6 | When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily . |
| 7 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 8 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 9 | Mrs Edna Wall remembers Mrs Bessie Forde and Mrs Cooper as leaders marching the band of 90 or so little ones in the early 1930s to outdoor meetings in different parts of the town and always , when they came to a public house , they stopped and sang : ‘ Dare to be a Daniel — ’ with a special emphasis on the words : ‘ Keep outside the public house and bring your money home . ’ |
| 10 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 11 | GREAT BRITAIN women paid the price for failing to capitalise on scoring chances when they slumped to a 2-1 defeat against the United States at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Sunday . |
| 12 | But Newtown 's mopping up efforts paid dividends when they raced to a seven wicket victory in 21 overs , Gwilym Lewis leading the charge with an unbeaten half-century and skipper Bryan Jones hitting 22 . |
| 13 | JULIO Cesar Chavez escaped the first defeat of his 88-bout career and Pernell Whitaker retained the WBC welterweight title when they battled to a 12-round draw in San Antonio , Texas last night . |
| 14 | JULIO Cesar Chavez escaped the first defeat of his 88-bout career and Pernell Whitaker retained the WBC welterweight title when they battled to a 12-round draw in San Antonio , Texas , last night . |
| 15 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 16 | This simple , naive and incomprehensible blunder established Scotland 's reputation as the team most likely to screw up when it came to a big match preparation . |
| 17 | It lacked the bypass of Hebon under Pertunda , and Triglaf certainly had the edge on it when it came to a southerly location . |
| 18 | The composition of the Cabinet , when it returned to a normal size after the 1931 election , was eleven Conservatives , five Liberals and four former Labour ministers . |
| 19 | Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems . |
| 20 | Laurence McGeown 's wide runner satisfied selectors last week at the Dublin track when he cruised to a facile seven lengths victory , 30.61 seconds , over the Anglo-Irish International 503 metres distance . |
| 21 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 22 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |