Example sentences of "when they [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 3 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , when they stop me in the street , at least half of them call me Mr Darcy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 8 | And then they 're gon na have an eleventh one when they , when they do it with the form tutor . |
| 9 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 10 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 11 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen . |
| 13 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |