Example sentences of "[that] when they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were most resistant to his strictures , claiming that when they served the goddess , they were never short of food . |
| 2 | Er Mike said in his autobiography that when they got the play and converted it to film , they changed the age of the character for a start , cos in the play it was written in the late fifties by Bill and it was written for a man approaching his forties . |
| 3 | As for the barking dragoman , Gustave merely records that when they heard the village dog in the distance , he ordered the policeman to fire his pistol in the air . |
| 4 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 5 | Later she had a full mastectomy and was just getting over that when they discovered the cancer had spread to her bones . |
| 6 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 7 | He knew that when they built the Jubilee Line they had had to put in a big fan shaft here to release the air or passengers might have been blown off the platform on to the line . |
| 8 | Animal inspectors said that when they found the dog , it was practically skin and bone . |
| 9 | Bateson explained : ‘ The League have been in contact to say that when they informed the FA of the meeting , they were told that no matter what the egm approved the FA would not sanction any agreement which would produce more than 24 clubs in any one division . |