Example sentences of "when they [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 2 | When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again . |
| 3 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 4 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 5 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 6 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 7 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 8 | When they put it to an expert they received the bewildering reply : ‘ Bird 's eye figure is formed as a result of local suppressions in divisions of cambial tissue that cause indentation to develop . |
| 9 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 10 | The Quaker mother , who was so astonished by the ignorance of the police when they questioned her about the way she and her family worshipped , said her faith remained strong . |
| 11 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 12 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 13 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 14 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 15 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 16 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 17 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 18 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 19 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , when they stop me in the street , at least half of them call me Mr Darcy . |
| 21 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
| 22 | When they launch themselves into the air they suddenly straighten their bodies and hollow out their lower surfaces . |
| 23 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
| 24 | The best kept secret of this election may be that poll tax collectors plan a massive drive to catch those who have failed to register for poll tax , or those who have registered but failed to pay it , when they present themselves at the polling booths tomorrow . |
| 25 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 26 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 27 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 28 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 29 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 30 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |