Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 2 | Well anyway George did tell me when I popped in after the funeral erm that you were hoping you 'd be here today , I said , oh well I said I 'll leave this here then you can . |
| 3 | only had this sprung on me er today er when I went in to the Hall and and and saw them with a notice and a table collecting signatures . |
| 4 | when I went in for the steamer |
| 5 | I rather wondered whether she drinks , as when I went in in the morning there was a large bottle of beer on the table . |
| 6 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 7 | So I guess I owe you an apology , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ although when you walked in through the kitchen door , all dressed up to the nines after being with Ryan , I wanted anything but to forgive you . ’ |
| 8 | What happened in when you came in with the har what was the |
| 9 | When she came in with the junket , the row had obviously developed . |
| 10 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 11 | When she walked in at the back door Mrs Peterson said : ‘ You 're back then . |
| 12 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 13 | And when she moved in for the kill she was as hard , and as final , as any of her male colleagues . |
| 14 | It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her . |
| 15 | They stood on their ends in the inward sloping shelves for a fortnight or so when they came in during the spring or early summer . |
| 16 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 17 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 18 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
| 19 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 20 | After a dull opening 40 minutes Hagan took centre stage when he cut in from the right , chipped over Joe Tortolano , brought the ball down and then blasted beyond John Burridge . |
| 21 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 22 | When he called in at the offices of Grubworthy and Sting , on his way through London , they were no less honest with him . |
| 23 | Gilford forged a three-stoke lead when he chipped in at the seventh but first Spence , with birdies at the tenth and eleventh , then Ames with strikes at the fourteenth and fifteenth , cut his lead to only one . |
| 24 | When he climbed in beside the Fish they leaned forward and kissed him enthusiastically . |
| 25 | Mark Moncrieff gave Gala a lifeline when he raced in from the 22 for a try which Jim Maitland converted . |
| 26 | Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales . |