Example sentences of "when they [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
| 2 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 3 | When they came out the club went mad , and they honestly believed that the crowd thought they were good . ’ |
| 4 | The meaning of the word ‘ immediate ’ is likely to give rise to dispute in the courts , but it may be assumed that if , for example , a man threatens a woman that unless she has sexual intercourse with him , he will violently assault her in the presence of her children when they return home the following day , this will not be rape under the Committee 's proposals . |
| 5 | ‘ I first noticed them when they carried out the hospital nursery raid about three years ago . |
| 6 | Note that unc when an only when A contains at least one element which is not in B. We says sets A and B are equal , and write A = B , when and only when they contain precisely the same members . |
| 7 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 8 | There are blokes crying out there when they come off the pitch , when they 've been substituted . |
| 9 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 10 | In 1985 French agents killed a photographer when they blew up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour . |
| 11 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 12 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 13 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 14 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 15 | When they took over the , the mind of that man and that woman |
| 16 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 17 | But I was stunned when they took out the curlers — it looked even worse ! ’ |
| 18 | It was the dying days of the citizen Army , the young men who were reluctantly called up to serve their Queen and country — to learn how to fire a gun , to march in step and to use contraceptives when they took out the girl from the NAAFI on Saturday nights . |
| 19 | When they know how the pen will respond they no longer need to think about it , and will eventually be unaware of skilful minor corrective movements . |
| 20 | When they cut away the paper at the back of the frame it proved to be a Böcklin , but a print cut from a magazine , the original being in Budapest . |
| 21 | ‘ People who can must start over Christmas by getting out of their seats and using the switch when they turn off the TV , ’ said FoE energy campaigner , Mr Simon Roberts . |
| 22 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 23 | THE Queen Mum , Princess Margaret and Princess Anne all have birthdays in August and , we 're told , when they blow out the candles they sing : ‘ Happy Birthday to One . ’ |
| 24 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 25 | One of the worst forms of slavery today is practised by the developed countries when they keep down the prices of basic products by subsidizing and dumping products and so competing with those that are vital for the countries of the Third World2 . ’ |
| 26 | Although , many appear in good spirits at the moment , most know that when they get home the grim reality of unemployment and the bitterness felt at being one of the unfortunates will set in . |
| 27 | When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead . |
| 28 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 29 | When they got back the airport hotel seemed like home but his money was running out . |
| 30 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |