Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be spending all day on the phone when I get home to see if things can be sorted out . |
| 2 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 3 | the bathroom window all wide open when I went upstairs to bath , I thought I , I . |
| 4 | I had met Chris and Nick at Bush House to be interviewed about the anniversary for the World Service ; it was important because of the possibility that John or his kidnappers might be listening and I was very nervous , even more so when I arrived late to discover that the interview was live . |
| 5 | This proved futile , and when I decided eventually to rise , it was still so dark that I was obliged to turn on the electric light in order to shave at the sink in the corner . |
| 6 | Dramatic results are obtained when you go forwards to meet the opponent just as he attacks . |
| 7 | To work out quickly what your RC will indicate at the point where you arrive on track , use the following method : When you turn Left to intercept ( or to allow for drift on track ) consider Left as Minus |
| 8 | When you came upstairs to say father had collapsed , did n't you think it was very odd , the way Francis rushed down without a word ? ’ |
| 9 | You do not want to find out in the interview itself that the skirt rides up disconcertingly high when you sit down or that the front gapes open when you lean forward to talk . |
| 10 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 11 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 12 | In any case , she was too busy attacking the contents of her briefcase when she got home to have gone out with him , even if he had asked her — which he had n't . |
| 13 | Di was just about to drop elder son Wills back at school when she braked sharply to avoid an oncoming motor . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When she arrived home to find a crowd of newsmen on her doorstep , she stepped back into her blue Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 17 | When she peered closer to read the inscriptions she realised that they were the spoils from Marc 's career — rewards for his many years as an international racing driver . |
| 18 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
| 19 | When she leaned forward to get out of bed , Culley reached under her arms , taking a breast in either hand . |
| 20 | We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside . |
| 21 | When we turn later to look at ‘ people ’ as our source for data we shall consider various forms of observation ( such as participant observation ) but we shall be primarily concerned with the interview and the questionnaire as techniques for collection of data from this source . |
| 22 | This whole day event will begin with open classes and those will be followed by the now firmly established ‘ Ploughman 's Lunch ’ when we hope also to show the Festival tape of the two Medau items . |
| 23 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 24 | However , disappointment set in when we ventured home to find that the packaging contained a guitar , a separate tremolo and guarantee which was to be mailed to the USA . |
| 25 | At the other extreme there are many malnourished children who do not make up those essential nutrients , which lacking in school meals , when they return home to eat . |
| 26 | He engineered it so that he was standing head and shoulders above his rivals when they filed past to shake his hand and offer their condolences . |
| 27 | In fact , it was probably decreasing size in those creatures evolving from the therapsids that spurred the need for mammalian endothermy when the problems of overheating became the reverse — when they needed later to maintain temperatures . |
| 28 | Therefore , in any year , they may be expensed ( when they have generated revenues ) or they may be stored in the balance sheet ( for example , as closing stock , when they have yet to generate revenues ) . |
| 29 | When they did enough to earn wages , they were allowed to keep or spend half , the other half being saved for them on their release . |
| 30 | Eventually , when they begin cautiously to feed again , they avoid anything remotely like the spiny prey they attacked previously . |