Example sentences of "when they [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when they began to take an interpretive attitude toward their conventional practices , the situation became much more complicated . |
| 2 | When they began to investigate the tiny houses , they found other bodies : men , women , children … . |
| 3 | These new streamlined creatures became the first fish and soon underwent a further important change when they began to develop a movable jaw , paving the way for the Devonian period — the ‘ Age of Fishes ’ . |
| 4 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 5 | TWO police officers were punched and kicked when they went to investigate a minor road accident , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | WATERLOO are hoping that Mike Hayton will provide just the right treatment when they bid to reach the last 32 of the Pilkington Cup by winning at Lichfield tomorrow . |
| 7 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 8 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 9 | And you know these telephone-holes — when they 've dug a good hole they put a sort of canvas tent on top , so that they can work in comfort underneath . |
| 10 | Well they know that , and if there 's a machine that 'll do the job , and if , when they 've pressed the right buttons they can look at the answer and say ‘ Yes , three point four 's about right ’ and so on , then that 's good enough for me . |
| 11 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 12 | The only thing to remember about telling jokes at the breakfast/lunch/tea/dinner/supper table is not to make anyone sitting opposite you laugh when they 've got a half-chewed mouthful of tomatoey mush or curried gunge . |
| 13 | When they 've got a bad day , I find they want love . ’ |
| 14 | It 'll be be much more straightforward when they 've got the whole thing on the computer but at the moment it 's a transitional phase . |
| 15 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 16 | The few other tourists who had been here had hurried for cover when they had seen the black sky approaching . |
| 17 | The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy . |
| 18 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |
| 19 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 20 | In other words , they preferred , when they had earned a certain basic sum of money sufficient to meet their immediate needs , to spend the rest of their time in leisure rather than in work to increase their earnings . |
| 21 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |
| 22 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 23 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 24 | men when they 'd retrieved a live person , or even a dead one . |
| 25 | What such books include when they claim to describe the British ‘ constitution ’ depends on what their authors consider important to the framework of the system : what the ‘ constitution ’ consists of thus emerges from a survey of the system and is not determined by an independent , non-political definition that precedes it . |
| 26 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
| 27 | But when they started to use a different supplier , he threatened them . |
| 28 | When they happen have the unwrinkled skin |
| 29 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 30 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |