Example sentences of "when they go [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 2 | When they went into the crowded dining-room for dinner two people sprang up and came straight towards them . |
| 3 | When they went into the big bedroom , Patrick was seated in an armchair facing the door , dressed in his blue serge suit waiting for Rosie . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 6 | If American think-tankers would find Germany odd , they would be floored by Japan — but would cock an interested eyebrow when they went to the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | That is why the goods for which we are responsible are being labelled in Russian when they go to the former Soviet Union . |