Example sentences of "[pron] when they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can walk down here , ’ she told him when they reached the long gallery . |
| 2 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ Fortunately they lost a ball and were looking for it when they spotted the baby wrapped in a towel , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 5 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 6 | They will conclude , as people on a South London council estate expressed it when they observed the middle-class congregation going into their local church each Sunday , ‘ That church is n't for the likes of us . ’ |
| 7 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 8 | The industry 's corporate leaders must have laughed demonically to themselves when they saw the full weight of the law coming down on people manufacturing and distributing comparatively harmless drugs , such as marijuana . |
| 9 | A few people still remained with them when they reached the floor he wanted , and he pushed her gently out of the lift ahead of him . |
| 10 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 11 | The metaphor of war came as naturally to the lips of men who discussed their ‘ struggle for existence ’ or the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , as the metaphor of peace came to them when they described the home : ‘ the dwelling place of joy ’ , the place where ‘ the satisfied ambition of the heart rejoiced ’ , as it could never rejoice outside , since it could never be satisfied , or afford to admit itself satisfied . |
| 12 | I did n't realize I did n't realize we had such a tight schedule and it reminded me when they got the plan , well I do n't know when it came through , but I opened it today and . |
| 13 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |