Example sentences of "when they come " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 2 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 3 | Then , on one occasion , Malcolm happened to be around when they came in . |
| 4 | His face was flushed with excitement when they came . |
| 5 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 6 | There were several alarms , bringing laughing giggles of relief when they came to nothing . |
| 7 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 8 | A fortnight away by the sea and when they came back , the flat all ready and waiting for them . |
| 9 | Later , when they came to know each other better , the pupil might graduate to calling him ‘ Lewis ’ , but this would be in the case of intimates . |
| 10 | Against all the odds it has worked , and this is a measure of just how strong they both were as individuals when they came to the marriage ten years ago . |
| 11 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 12 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 13 | She did not , however , think it any more ridiculous than any other memorial chapel , but she was glad Christopher had not seen it , and hoped Flora would not mention it when they came round . |
| 14 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 15 | ‘ But think when they came here — just at the time Liam Shakespeare disappeared — and — ‘ |
| 16 | But when they came to lift the body , there was this bird 's head . |
| 17 | When they came into contact with the rock face , Corti tried to bite the snow , saying , ‘ Hungry . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 19 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 20 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 21 | When they came back it was dark . |
| 22 | In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky . |
| 23 | Martin Landau , friend of James Dean 's when they were both in New York and again when they came to Hollywood , was running acting classes between jobs . |
| 24 | Their flat was described as a garden flat when they came to see it , which was the only occasion on which they were asked to come into the garden , into which they were later told they had no right of entry . |
| 25 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 26 | Like mustard gas , the nitrogen mustards caused blisters when they came into contact with skin , and they damaged many other tissues when they were absorbed or injected into the circulating blood . |
| 27 | They never knew what to expect when they came home from school ! ’ |
| 28 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 29 | And that included the experience of caddying for some of the greats when they came to St Andrews , such as Henry Cotton and Flory Van Donck . |
| 30 | These trains cut twenty hours and thirty minutes off the running time of the 2299-mile journey between Chicago and Los Angeles when they came into service in 1954 . |