Example sentences of "when they [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night ! |
| 3 | ‘ Are you afraid of the dark , Bobbie ? ’ asked Jim , when they were sitting in the darkness . |
| 4 | Berbizier 's decision to start the game without a recognised line-out jumper was a controversial one , even if the French scored all their points in a first half when they were dominated in the line-out and nearly lost the game in the second half when the lanky Roumat redressed the balance . |
| 5 | ‘ of atrocious memory , who courted and married fourteen wives , and destroyed them all by tickling the soles of their feet when they was sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue ’ . |