Example sentences of "when you [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos when you smoke you kept your money for your fags , but if you do n't smoke you do n't need to keep it . |
| 2 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
| 3 | Just when you thought you had it all figured out , it threw you a curve like this . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose I assumed you could n't cope with people 's reaction to your breaking up with Jennifer when you learnt she had MS . ’ |
| 5 | If you did n't think of mentioning this caller to your wife , did n't it even occur to you to mention it to us when you heard what had happened ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So you already had a flight booked when you heard what had happened ? ’ |
| 7 | Small wonder , too , when you hear what happened to it . |
| 8 | Talking of which , you 'll laugh when you hear I went a bit bonkers myself for a while . |
| 9 | So when you got what did you do then . |
| 10 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 11 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 12 | Plus I already had that , plus I had another five I did n't tell you about , I had fifteen when you said you had fifteen , look , one there 's me first ten |
| 13 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 14 | At last he said , ‘ Your letter told me that you did n't mean it when you said you hated me . |
| 15 | ‘ I realised that you definitely did n't want to merge and I would have accepted that , but when you said you hated me — ’ he paused ‘ — well , that hit me hard . |
| 16 | You know , when you said he hated Leeds , and everyone hates Leeds and is disgusted they 're near the top ! |
| 17 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 18 | There was just no point in remaining on the premises when you knew you had to go , as Muldoon had said . |
| 19 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |
| 20 | And what when when you say she got married , service take place ? |
| 21 | How did he go to pieces , when you say he went to pieces ? |
| 22 | And I believe you when you say you killed one of them . |
| 23 | So when you say you went through , what what did you go through before you embarked on on surrogacy ? |
| 24 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 25 | When you say it cost me an arm and a leg , you 're thinking in word pictures if you like it 's a metaphor and er in the in the picture it 's by the er Long John by the Long John Silver figure having not only one leg , but also one arm as well . |
| 26 | Scums strength in depth was exposed when you see they had Ferguson and Dublin on the bench . |
| 27 | What I saw that evening may be important when you consider what happened on the night of his death . |
| 28 | And when you found I 'd had your heir , you 'd have brought me home fast enough . " |
| 29 | So when you retired you came to live here , was that it ? |
| 30 | When you rang what did you know about the occupiers of the flat . |