Example sentences of "when they [vb base] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
| 2 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |
| 3 | There are blokes crying out there when they come off the pitch , when they 've been substituted . |
| 4 | When they know how the pen will respond they no longer need to think about it , and will eventually be unaware of skilful minor corrective movements . |
| 5 | When they cut away the paper at the back of the frame it proved to be a Böcklin , but a print cut from a magazine , the original being in Budapest . |
| 6 | ‘ People who can must start over Christmas by getting out of their seats and using the switch when they turn off the TV , ’ said FoE energy campaigner , Mr Simon Roberts . |
| 7 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 8 | When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead . |
| 9 | ‘ These little publishers always say that when they bring out a book everyone else rejected as uncommercial . |
| 10 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 11 | But many borrowers choose an appealing discount deal as the sole criterion when they take out a loan . |
| 12 | I have seen people deteriorate quickly when they give up a routine , believing that this is the right thing to do . |
| 13 | ‘ It distresses quite a few people when they find out the difference . |
| 14 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 15 | Interviews with doctors who practise euthanasia have shown that they resort to LAWER when they have neither the courage nor cruelty to talk openly with patients , relatives , or colleagues . |
| 16 | I love to watch people work when they have obviously no idea what they 're doing . |
| 17 | The remedy for these people begins when they see where the problem lies — with them , not with God . |
| 18 | They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the API in 90 days . |
| 19 | They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the application programming interface in 90 days . |