Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on it was the ‘ Dark Ages ’ when nothing seemed to happen at all . |
| 2 | The trouble with Caitlin was he still behaved as if it was the old days , when everyone wanted to help out the police . |
| 3 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 4 | ‘ So that 's what the atmosphere was about when I came to collect you ! ’ |
| 5 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 6 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to envisage difficulties when I came to socialise in the Bangor area and would meet pupils . |
| 8 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why I cast so many unknowns when I came to make the movie , ’ Dickerson reasons . |
| 10 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 11 | One day when I went to give my language class at the university I found the word maricone ( queer ) chalked in large Gothic letters on the blackboard . |
| 12 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 13 | N now you know when I went to see Dr he said I 'd got this enlarged heart ? |
| 14 | Thus it started popping up everywhere — even in Hobart , Tasmania , last Thursday night , when I went to speak there at a rugby dinner . |
| 15 | It was a warm sunny evening on September 18th 1989 when I went to fetch Copper in from the paddock for his evening exercise before settling him down in his nice fresh shavings bed for the night . |
| 16 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |
| 17 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 18 | The second time I tried to come off was when I went to stay with me sister and I took her DFs and just stayed in , y'know . |
| 19 | Afterwards , when I continued to sob as children do , she would order me to stop or she would ‘ stomp me into the ground ’ . |
| 20 | I certainly did n't when I applied to work there . |
| 21 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
| 22 | I recall those things because of their typicality : this is what the English and Welsh grammar schools were like , and ( more surprisingly ) were still like when I began to teach in them ten years after the 1944 Act . |
| 23 | ‘ In some ways this was when I began to get my reputation for complete irritability . |
| 24 | And that 's when I began to get suspicious . |
| 25 | This was when I began to understand his drama , though never to accept it . |
| 26 | That 's when I began to have doubts about the company . |
| 27 | That was when I began to question to myself exactly what I was doing . |
| 28 | ‘ There was a time when I planned to live for ever , but the time has come to change those plans . ’ |
| 29 | And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about . |
| 30 | Came the sad morning when I had to say goodbye to the crimson walls , white statues , giant mirrors and piped music of O'Brien 's Hotel . |