Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 2 | Greek images were also used by physiognomists and ethnologists when they began to create racist classification systems which placed the Greek profile as the highest development of humanity , above Jewish people with African peoples lower down the scale , represented so as to approximate their profiles with those of primates and apes at the bottom . |
| 3 | For the most part they contented themselves with the material evidence available in the form of bones and artefacts , yet even when they began to observe living animals good behavioural description did not expose the factors that transformed the infrahuman primate society into a human one . |
| 4 | Even those Danzigers who felt relief at being removed from the lax and distant hand of Catholic Warsaw were soon to see this as cold comfort when they began to experience Prussian rule . |
| 5 | For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child . |
| 6 | When they went to investigate two men confronted them . |
| 7 | Later , when they came to know each other better , the pupil might graduate to calling him ‘ Lewis ’ , but this would be in the case of intimates . |
| 8 | When they seemed to resemble each other rather too closely , he introduced random mutations in the offspring . |
| 9 | But they gave up when they failed to obtain financial assistance from the British government . |
| 10 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 11 | They began to drift into amiable silence when they had asked each other questions about their children and the schools , and the plans they had for their holiday in Ireland . |
| 12 | When they had reassured each other , Kalchu put the calf down by her side . |
| 13 | In the opinion of the deputy judge the operation of that Part , concerned as it was with giving the authorities powers to secure compliance with or detection of evasion of the Act , came to an end when they had secured sufficient evidence to justify a charge . |
| 14 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 15 | Prospective owners were required to put down an initial deposit of £50,000 , which seemed fair enough when they had received 1,400 applications and at a time when the prices of exclusive cars were rising to the stratosphere . |
| 16 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |
| 17 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 18 | The last time this had happened was in Belfast , when they had cornered that PIRA bastard in the cellar . |
| 19 | Reviewing women at between 22–28 years after the index pregnancy ( when they had had abnormal glucose tolerance , but reverted to normal tolerance afterwards ) , he found a 50% prevalence of diabetes and 25% of abnormal glucose tolerance , whereas the controls had rates of 7% and 3% . |
| 20 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |
| 21 | When they had finished several hours later I felt confused and sat outside the room to smoke a cigarette while the Sergeants deliberated . |
| 22 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 23 | It was as pained and as lost-even now , as he came to kill her — as it had been when they 'd faced each other in the street . |
| 24 | There are 800 professionals round the world now compared with the days 20 years ago when they struggled to find enough pros to compete for the world championship . |
| 25 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 26 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 27 | American house advertisements lapsed into French when they wanted to indicate high status : ‘ Une Maison Ranch très originale ’ or ‘ Une maison contemporaine ’ . |
| 28 | Germany , Belgium and the Netherlands were outvoted by their EC partners when they tried to increase Latin America 's share of the Community banana market . |
| 29 | The working class met even stiffer resistance when they tried to secure political representation through the Chartist Movement . ’ |
| 30 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |