Example sentences of "when they [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's just got inside the house when they knocked on the door and asked to breath-test him . |
| 2 | These drops when they fall on the soil of the mind become pearls or narcissi . |
| 3 | The Easoe scientists said that the ozone loss was more serious than they had expected when they embarked on the £14 million experiment in late 1991 . |
| 4 | At common law the possessor of ‘ cattle ’ was strictly liable , independently of scienter , for damage done by them when they trespassed on the land of his neighbour . |
| 5 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 6 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 7 | Yet , in heavy rock terms , they still retain an erudite edge and play with an urgency onstage that outstrips the uncharacteristically sluggish Babes In Toyland , when they played on the other side of town , two nights earlier . |
| 8 | Most people naively imagine they will stop immediately when they jam on the brakes . |
| 9 | The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and |
| 10 | When they arrived on the set he almost fell out of the car . |
| 11 | Right he sent only a very small army and when they arrived on the shores . |
| 12 | Union Discount alleged that it was owed a duty of care by the auditors when they reported on the audit . |
| 13 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 14 | Indeed the member States were acting qua members not qua Assembly when they voted on the membership of the Committee . |
| 15 | Certainly when they appear on the air using exotic callsigns Dxpeditions enable other , less adventurous , amateurs to share in their activities and that is perhaps one of the significant features of the hobby . |
| 16 | But when they moved on the school lost its reason for being . |
| 17 | People are still paying off the debt they ran up when they borrowed on the back of roaring house prices in the eighties . |
| 18 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 19 | When they consume mushrooms Night Goblin shamans deduct -1 from their dice score when they roll on the ‘ Eadbangerz Chart . |
| 20 | Owners are allowed to discriminate when they live on the premises and share facilities such as the kitchen and bathroom with the tenants . |
| 21 | This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea . |
| 22 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 23 | I have no doubt that the objectors , when they arrive on the scene inside the Maltings , will follow the same line , striking similar monotony but different notes . |
| 24 | Does anyone , when they stand on the scales |
| 25 | And at the end , when they flipped on the lights , ‘ everyone was just riveted to him . |
| 26 | If and when they work on the tacit assumption or make such a blatant assertion as that , that there is no longer any poverty , because it is not true and unless and until it is true neither they nor we have got any right to be content . |