Example sentences of "when [pron] went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a young man round at Mr Taczek 's flat when I went round to see him . ’ |
| 2 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 3 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 4 | the bathroom window all wide open when I went upstairs to bath , I thought I , I . |
| 5 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |
| 6 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 7 | I went in there and bought some chewing gum when I went down to see it |
| 8 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw him when I went down to make myself a cup of tea , just letting himself out the door he was . ’ |
| 10 | Any road , erm when I went back to see her she said of the ones who came and asked to go on it , we 've accepted you , but no more . |
| 11 | But when I went back to have another look they 'd been changed . |
| 12 | Then Mr Jarvis had a friend with him when I went out to deal with piglets who were scouring , and this man owns a smallholding near by . |
| 13 | ‘ When I went out to look at replacements , I found there were plenty of quality players available looking for work . |
| 14 | The sort of people who cried with relief when you went in to buy a piece of Elastoplast . |
| 15 | Why was it , Sally-Anne thought when she went forward to take it , that this pitiful sum seemed more precious to her than her huge allowance which she could claim any day she wished ? |
| 16 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
| 17 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 18 | I can remember having when she went in to have our Pam and er I thought on the Wednesday afternoon had a bloody good walk round |
| 19 | When she went back to look for it , the handbag was gone and she travelled back to Dublin without it . |
| 20 | Well anyway Wen , Wen was in bed with flu , he was with mum so when we went up to pick him up about ooh twenty past twelve I said to and Rudy , I said to Rudy I 'm , I 'm worried about Wendy , he said are you ? |
| 21 | Yes , the will be floating in the river when we went down to do the foundations , so it , it has cost a lot more money in , than we anticipated , and certainly in time and effort . |
| 22 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 23 | When they went down to do the chassis |
| 24 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 25 | I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property . |
| 26 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 27 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 28 | But on receiving no reply , he seemed hellbent on goading her , and she found she had no chance to be passive , meek and mild , when he went on to taunt , ‘ You 're paid well , I 'll grant , but even so … ’ his eyes flicked over her good quality suit which , while not drawing attention to her figure , had been costly ‘ … |
| 29 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 30 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |