Example sentences of "and when i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system is called the Arva 8000 and when I get round to absorbing some technical literature on the subject I 'll bring you more news . |
| 2 | It 's long hours and when I get in I 've seen enough shoes to last me a life-time . ’ |
| 3 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 4 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 5 | I 'm in a band , and when I get back from England I 'm going into the studio to do an album of music with my comedy over the top of it . |
| 6 | ‘ Ana screamed and when I looked round you were n't there at all . ’ |
| 7 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 8 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 9 | For a moment I looked away , and when I looked back he was gone . |
| 10 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 11 | Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face , and when I looked down , I saw a very small human being , only fifteen centimetres tall . |
| 12 | There was a scraping , rattling sound and when I looked down I saw bones . |
| 13 | And when I looked down at my ankle they 'd put this label on me . ’ |
| 14 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 15 | We finished our meal in silence , and when I looked out of the window , all I could see was darkness and snow . |
| 16 | Things seemed quiet enough , but it was an uneasy calm and in the late afternoon , there was a crump of a bomb and when I looked out of the window I saw a black pall of smoke in the distance . |
| 17 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 18 | And when I got through I knew immediately by the tone of her voice that she was , there was something wrong . |
| 19 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 20 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 21 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 22 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 23 | and I thought , ooh , any way , I went to sleep again and when I got up |
| 24 | And when I got back I had ants in my pants , |
| 25 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 26 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 27 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 29 | Last night in the cold and dark we failed to fix it properly again , and when I wake up there is snow all over us and our kit . |
| 30 | He goes to sleep with me and when I wake up |