Example sentences of "when they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Night Goblins have become so accustomed to the dark that when they come out into the open they prefer to move around at night and hide away during the day . |
| 32 | When they come out of the water , it is as if the mikva represents the womb and they are reborn . |
| 33 | French cakes , Léonie mused : are n't as good when they come out of the oven as English cakes . |
| 34 | the , the the green erm coats when they er , when they go up to the main school . |
| 35 | Freedom and self-determination for a small country only seem to count when they go along with the freedom to drive large cars and the freedom to consume . |
| 36 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
| 37 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 38 | When they turn up at the office next day looking as if they 've missed out on their sleep , however , they could get more than teasing comments from their colleagues . |
| 39 | As has been said , Sam and Frodo experience it as thinking for a moment they have died and gone to Heaven , when they wake up on the field of Cormallen . |
| 40 | I think if you ask any housewife , if they 're honest , they 'll turn round and say they feel like a drudge half the time — everybody thinks when they get up in the morning ‘ Oh no , I 've got the same old things to do today , till I go to bed tonight . ’ |
| 41 | Yep , that just about sums up what we do on the way to the cairn , hence the use of the word climb in trying to convey to a companion exactly what it is you expect them to do when they get out of the car . |
| 42 | The problems start when they get out of the ‘ All I want is a basic word processor ’ frame of mind and start getting into some serious computing . |
| 43 | When they get back to the start again . |
| 44 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 45 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 46 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 47 | ‘ The SS went to a great deal of trouble on the public relations side : there was background music , lorries ready to transport women , children and the infirm , while prisoners were at hand to act as porters ; in short an atmosphere of relative welcome greeted the Jews when they got out of the cattle trucks … ’ |
| 48 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 49 | ‘ When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom . |
| 50 | When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished . |
| 51 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 52 | When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room . |
| 53 | And when they got back to the meadow , Lucie had sent all the people home , refusing every one of their eager tributes . |
| 54 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 55 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 56 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 57 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 58 | And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire . |
| 59 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 60 | When they reported back to the branch about the National Conference of Young Conservatives , they were questioned about just the things they had failed to notice . |