Example sentences of "when they [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 2 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 3 | But when they came to lift the body , there was this bird 's head . |
| 4 | When they came to plan the project in detail , the teachers ( planning together in this school in year groups ) worked together to construct a series of carefully designed ‘ activities ’ — a total of six in all . |
| 5 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 6 | The attacks caused localized damage and injuries , and up to three elderly Israeli women suffocated when they failed to remove the filter caps from their gas masks . |
| 7 | When they try to stunt the growth of waste and to ensure that it is properly disposed of , governments face a real quandary . |
| 8 | When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break , they found parts of the posts missing and broken . |
| 9 | In opposition the Conservatives had , it is true , pressed for a select committee , but when they returned to power the Commons committee they established was quite ineffective . |
| 10 | Bill Walker , MP , who has criticised the Scottish Office for what he says is their failure to help the family , said : ‘ I will be here when they come to evict the family and I will stand shoulder to shoulder with them . ’ |
| 11 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 12 | The three main works — by Trevor Wilson , Roy Douglas , and Chris Cook — are all rather slight when they come to tackle the complexities of the Liberal attitude during the crisis . |
| 13 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 14 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 15 | When they come to consider the plaintiff 's damages , it must be highly material that they then may say to themselves , however , this would family was harbouring this dangerous criminal two days beforehand . |
| 16 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 17 | There were a range of meetings , some private meetings with district councils when they 've given the opportunity to discuss issues erm themselves , and quite clearly our members did in fact look at a whole range of projections before coming to a final view . |
| 18 | When they 've raised the money at the carnival . |
| 19 | And we will certify payments to these consultants when they 've done the work . |
| 20 | When they 've finished the route then can chip off a bit of the climb to put in their gin and tonics ! |
| 21 | When they 've got the results from the hospital . |
| 22 | when they 've abandoned the graveyard . |
| 23 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 24 | ‘ We must return home , ’ she told Anna when they had made the daisy chain and hung it around the little girl 's neck . |
| 25 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 26 | He would just have to walk , openly , away from the main body of the school , get downwind of Maisie , stalk her carefully , and , when they had reached the birch-trees on the other side of Cannizaro Road , creep up on her and leap out at her when she was n't looking . |
| 27 | And when they had reached the place where the mine widened |
| 28 | But after the first explorations and when they had absorbed the impact of the delight of the situation , the girl began to be restless . |
| 29 | Anyway when they had done the rounds of your local relatives they contacted your father . |
| 30 | They had gone through the buildings when they had searched the area previously but on that occasion , as Owen reminded himself crossly , he had been summoned away in the middle by that foolish District Chief and sent on that wild goose chase down to the river . |