Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 2 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 3 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 5 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 6 | ‘ When I come out of a house having heard a victim laugh for the first time since it all happened — I know that 's why I do it , ’ she says . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've locked up the cottage and when I come back in a couple of days I shall sell up my sister 's belongings . |
| 8 | And you know and I know that when I come home after a nice relentless day at the rehearsal rooms , it will look like Versailles , Southfork and Designers Guild rolled into one . |
| 9 | ‘ I always wear a helmet when I go out on a bike , but I think we might have to make helmets a fashion accessory to get more children to wear them . ’ |
| 10 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 12 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 13 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 14 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 15 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 16 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 17 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 18 | ‘ When you go on to a slope with hard snow and ice which is relatively steep then you need stiff sole boots which have an iron bar under the rubber , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He was the person when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say ‘ would you water my geranium ’ . |
| 20 | He was the person , when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say would you water my geranium ; that is the historical sum of William Shakespeare , it 's the truth . |
| 21 | On the other hand , when you go abroad to a country where you 're completely unrecognized , you 're reminded what it 's like to be a member of the public , and that can be very sobering — life without the smiles and knowing looks . |
| 22 | But when you go in on a subject like philosophy , to jump in at that level how adjusted you are it 's difficult if you 've not got any academic background to suddenly come in and have to start doing it . |
| 23 | When you go home on a lunch time , you do n't need it when you go home at lunchtime . |
| 24 | Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself . |
| 25 | Good good good remember that when you go back into a how many people actually do work with other people where they work where they work ? |
| 26 | Accent is on comfort when you step in for a relaxing drink . |
| 27 | That when you reach out for a friend , |
| 28 | When you went out on a tour with MainMan , you did n't eat in a Wimpey level of place , or stay in the Holiday Inn . |
| 29 | Wh when you went in as an apprentice , did you have any i i idea of what the job was . |
| 30 | GrandPat did something wrong I suppose when you went down like a when he 's lying on his back because you do n't go down there very very fast . |