Example sentences of "when they [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These new streamlined creatures became the first fish and soon underwent a further important change when they began to develop a movable jaw , paving the way for the Devonian period — the ‘ Age of Fishes ’ . |
| 2 | Almost before Laura could blink her eyes a vigorous pillow-fight seemed to be taking place as the two small girls charged back and forth across the bed , screaming with laughter when they managed to score a hit . |
| 3 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 4 | TWO police officers were punched and kicked when they went to investigate a minor road accident , a court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | There is a lot of anxiety displayed by handicap golfers when they try to use a driver . |
| 6 | In the final part of our series on the work of the RSPCA , Liz Hannam looks at the difficulties the society face when they try to take a cruelty case to court . |
| 7 | He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ . |
| 8 | It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion . |
| 9 | They 're seen as being reliable , they 'll use a standard approach so that when they come to solve a problem , what do we , what did we do before ? |
| 10 | I think they look after them when they 've lost a lot of weight , you know . |
| 11 | I often wonder if , when they 've selected a person say right , I 'll choose number three , when number one goes by and number two goes by afterwards if they think oh you know , no , I would have preferred number two . |
| 12 | Now having said that I mean the late long established er unit trust group , I mean as a , as a company we 've got to be very careful who we use , we 've got an approved list erm in London and in Bournemouth we have erm a , a department which analyzes products , and those products come onto our approved list when they 've , when they 've fulfilled a number of criteria . |
| 13 | And you know these telephone-holes — when they 've dug a good hole they put a sort of canvas tent on top , so that they can work in comfort underneath . |
| 14 | When they 've done a nappy thing . |
| 15 | I think he was conscious of a great deal probably , but at the same time many writers will tell you that they find when they 've finished a poem or a play things in it , demonstrably in it , systematically and intelligently present with real relations , which they do n't remember writing . |
| 16 | I think he was conscious of a great deal probably , but at the same time , many writers will tell you , that they find when they 've finished a poem or a play , things in it , demonstrably in it , systematically and intelligently present with real relations , which they do n't remember writing . |
| 17 | When they 've got a bad day , I find they want love . ’ |
| 18 | The only thing to remember about telling jokes at the breakfast/lunch/tea/dinner/supper table is not to make anyone sitting opposite you laugh when they 've got a half-chewed mouthful of tomatoey mush or curried gunge . |
| 19 | And when they 've got a sell-out crowd singing along , you wonder if they might be right . |
| 20 | The filthy conditions would n't help : the droids probably had infra-red sight , and heat-seekers do n't notice a rainstorm when they 've got a rocket trail to home in on . |
| 21 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 22 | Staff commission has issued a number of consulta or has issued a consultation paper , and I detail that in paragraph eight , and in our response to that , basically , we have said the nineteen seventy-four arrangements for the staff commission seemed to have worked very well , and we hope the staff commission will , the new staff commission will stick very closely to that , and only vary them when they 've got a perfectly good reason for doing so . |
| 23 | She wants me when they 've got a club night and |
| 24 | ‘ You know how men are when they 've had a glass too many . |
| 25 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 26 | Most people when they 've experienced a burglary will spend some time , perhaps minutes , perhaps hours , trying to absorb what has happened to them . |
| 27 | Kalchu explained that every hunt begins like this : the dogs flush out the forest — the inaccessible chasms and the narrow hidden valleys — and when they 've found a boar , they 're trained to chase it downhill only . |
| 28 | When they had eaten a couple of mouthfuls they started to open their mail . |
| 29 | In addition to the squalor , residents suffered from prejudice when they had to give a Springtown address . |
| 30 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |