Example sentences of "when they [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they applied to Stroud District Council for permission to build a house , they were turned down flat . |
| 2 | With plenty of time to get ready , Sophie and Joanna were looking their best when they drove to Edward 's palatial house . |
| 3 | Bay of Plenty showed the advantage of the special coaching which New Zealanders receive for such events when they romped to victory in the Melrose Sevens tournament , taking the prized trophy overseas for the third year in a row by defeating Kelso 19–12 in the final . |
| 4 | In 1886 , Llewellyn and his family were hissed and booed when they went to church . |
| 5 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 6 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 7 | So , knowing Alan , do you remember somebody used to park their car in front of Alan 's gate when they went to London ? |
| 8 | But it was n't the same when they went to school . |
| 9 | I thought it were three when they went to school . |
| 10 | I can understand why the Russells did n't want to sell when they went to Dubai . ’ |
| 11 | When they went to bed that night Ellen , as usual , was asleep within minutes but Ruth , though deadly tired , was curiously wakeful ; not quite feeling herself but not able to put a finger on what was wrong . |
| 12 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said the couple , who lived at the house in Brankin Road , Darlington , had forgotten to shut the front door when they went to bed that night . |
| 13 | FORTY teachers from schools in South Humberside found a Royal Banker in charge of the class when they went to Grimsby Branch to learn about the Bank 's Cash Flo initiative . |
| 14 | In 1959 , five British students piloted a similar British scheme when they went to work in New York . |
| 15 | That 's it , no they went to look for diamonds in the cave when they went to work did n't they ? |
| 16 | We had to pay the lads their bus fares and er the things like , when they went to college . |
| 17 | The three parties comprising the Alliance for Germany ( the CDU , the DSU and Democratic Awakening ) , however , did not join together as one faction despite pressure that they do so from their West German counterparts when they went to Bonn on March 22 for discussions on the formation of a government in East Berlin . |
| 18 | Like the makhilas or elaborately worked sticks made of medlar , with a sharp goad concealed in the handle ; these look decorative enough but they were weapons before they became art forms and Basque men always carried them when they went to markets or cattle fairs and often fought with them . |
| 19 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 20 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 21 | Not only could slum youth sometimes afford to pay their fines when they appeared in the police courts — a shocking enough fact to their respectable contemporaries that was often remarked upon — but they could even pick and choose what clothes they would wear when they came to court . |
| 22 | The jobs they had when they came to Britain were menial , jobs that nobody else would deign to do . |
| 23 | She 'd be dreadful when they came to Der Zarewitsch in three weeks ' time ; like playing Arsena again . |
| 24 | Such low relief is found in Greek art too ; but Greek sculptors seem to have begun with free-standing statues , and when they came to relief their approach was affected by the conventions of that art . |
| 25 | And in the second cab , heading east , seeing the personnel , those who are faceless , and those who are all face , all hair and gesture , I wondered if everyone needed new identities when they came to New York . |
| 26 | And that included the experience of caddying for some of the greats when they came to St Andrews , such as Henry Cotton and Flory Van Donck . |
| 27 | Spain 's Socialists junked dogma when they came to office in 1982 . |
| 28 | Such questions have become much harder to answer as a consequence of the Government 's astonishing success in closing the north-south divide , which was thought to be wholly irremediable when they came to office . |
| 29 | Martin Landau , friend of James Dean 's when they were both in New York and again when they came to Hollywood , was running acting classes between jobs . |
| 30 | They 'd both lived with their parents near Sutton , he already in the shipping business from which he 'd retired when they came to Dynmouth , she working in her father 's estate agency , doing part-time secretarial duties and arranging the flowers in the outer office . |