Example sentences of "when they [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of that would be that they identify that that 's , I 'm going there two years hence that 's the pathway and it 's too late to wait until next January a year from January and suddenly realise they need six G C S E's , a , b , c when they 've lost half their grades on the course work to date . |
| 2 | But they 'll be back , when they 've gathered more men , if we do n't do something about it . ’ |
| 3 | You 've got the landlords who are the en the enemies , you , you 've got rich peasants who are broadly gon na be opposed to you and , and will only come in on your side at the very latest stage when they 've realized that and then you 've got the middle peasants who are wavering in the middle but will probably support you mu certainly much more easily . |
| 4 | She 's also produced very kind of her erm , a questionnaire about the Royal Quays erm to take home to their parents and grandparents to bring back and about , probably get a couple of copies of that and then when they 've done that the seventh and fourteenth she 's going to , or we 're gon na select two pupils from each of the classes to go out with her , one group to go into the middle of North Shields |
| 5 | You know , it 's wrong really when they 've done all that training ! |
| 6 | They might have them might they , might they when they 've finished all this refurbishing ? |
| 7 | This she protested against very strongly , on the ground that she had known many missed and some murdered who essayed to travel round that way in the night ; not that she thought such dark deeds as robbery would be perpetrated by any of the islanders , ‘ But you see , sir , the island is very near the sea , and all sorts of men are sailing round about , an ’ when they 've spent all their own earnings on drink , it 's hard to know what they 'll no' do to try and get more . ’ |
| 8 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 9 | When they 've had that I say right you 're going to bed now . |
| 10 | People do n't , especially when they 've had enough and would n't mind . |
| 11 | When they 've had enough , when they 're burned out |
| 12 | And the sponges had been known to move and not be right and even today they 've when they 've had this er what is it , this er operation for it they 've conceived after have n't they ? |
| 13 | but there 's both when they 've taken two out with the members here and they 've got their , you know , money , they are left out then |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When they had reassured each other , Kalchu put the calf down by her side . |
| 16 | He often felt hungry when they had made such magnificent love . |
| 17 | There they had just begun to feel safe again , when they had scented more of the hated man-things lurking among the trees . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When they had killed twenty they laughed together . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 23 | The last time this had happened was in Belfast , when they had cornered that PIRA bastard in the cellar . |
| 24 | 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% . |
| 25 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |
| 26 | When they had described all that they could the film was started again and they watched the next five second section , and so on until an entire film had been described . |
| 27 | The first part dealt with unmixed foil and stated that ownership in the foil would transfer to the buyers only when they had paid all that was owing to the sellers . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if the Liberals voted against Baldwin , they would be putting Labour into power , something which many Liberal electors had not envisaged when they had voted Liberal to preserve Free Trade . |
| 29 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Necessity sometimes drove half-pay officers to seek a commission in an active battalion even when they had attained such an advanced age that any chance of a successful military career was long over . |