Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 2 | When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again . |
| 3 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 4 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 5 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 6 | The Quaker mother , who was so astonished by the ignorance of the police when they questioned her about the way she and her family worshipped , said her faith remained strong . |
| 7 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 8 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 9 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 10 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 11 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 12 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 13 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 14 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 15 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 16 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 17 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 18 | As when they wheeled you through the swinging door . |
| 19 | ‘ They , at least , confined themselves to giggling like village idiots when they watched him from the tower . |
| 20 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 21 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |
| 22 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |