Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
2 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
3 | When I came round for coffee . |
4 | And , ’ he went on , before Marc could interrupt , ‘ you happened to be in Paris when I came over for them . |
5 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
6 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
7 | when I went in for the steamer |
8 | What , when I went down for , so I called back later , about half an hour later and she was awake so I just took her then . |
9 | It was gone when I went back for it . ’ |
10 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
11 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
12 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
13 | ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true . |
14 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
17 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
18 | Josie found her when she turned in for work at the club that evening . |
19 | And when she moved in for the kill she was as hard , and as final , as any of her male colleagues . |
20 | If Bully was in the front garden when she set out for Pack Meeting , he would leap the gate and bound up to her , putting his great front paws against her chest , and barking at her . |
21 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
22 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
23 | Two of Queen Victoria 's night dresses failed to attract any interest when they came up for auction . |
24 | and train the English lads when they came out for that kind of work |
25 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
26 | They last won the trophy in 1989 at Dagenham , when they held on for 13 memorable minutes to beat Grays 3–2 and in 1986 the Clarets beat Billericay 3–0 in a two-legged final . |
27 | When it came up for its third reading on 21 June it was referred to a select committee who on 18 July reported that they were of the opinion that the bill ought not to be proceeded with . |
28 | I never did , but when it came up for auction , it just seemed like it would make her smile , and the money was going to a good cause , too . |
29 | However , it certainly raised the temperature when it came up for debate on 12 February last . |
30 | Ronnie Wilkie from Pest Control Dundee recently proved that cockroaches are anywhere and everywhere when he signed up for a sizeable job to rid an oil rig off the Aberdeen coast of them . |