Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , this fellow jibbed a bit when they offered him two hundred to knock off a bloke who would n't play along with them , but not for long . |
| 2 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 3 | They liked him well enough , however , when they knew him better . |
| 4 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 5 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 6 | Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday . |
| 7 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |