Example sentences of "when they [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 2 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 3 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 4 | they tend to drift away when they get to the last year anyway , you know ? |
| 5 | After hours of learning to hook the ball from the tee , when they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade . |
| 6 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 7 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 8 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 9 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |