Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 2 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 3 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 4 | F er your bodywork was er it was cut off You measured and cut it off with your er at the at the mill , and er , of course , then when it got to the er you cut it You know , when you got it to the er your waggon , you put it in and , of course , then you 'd got to bore all the holes by hand for the bolts to go in , to fit in . |
| 5 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 6 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |
| 7 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 8 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 9 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 10 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 11 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 12 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 13 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 14 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 15 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 16 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 17 | ‘ Dëkuji mnohokrát , ’ she thanked Ivo very much when he escorted her to the door of his master 's home . |