Example sentences of "when they [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You go dumb when you er when they switch on a |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | At the same time , at Edendale in Gore , Bruce Mackenzie , with the help of old Jan , bought a couple of good horses for his sons Sandy and Stu — ‘ for when they grew up a bit ’ . |
| 4 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 5 | Once when they went round a corner she swayed against him and caught his arm to steady herself . |
| 6 | When they came out the club went mad , and they honestly believed that the crowd thought they were good . ’ |
| 7 | When they came back an hour and a quarter later , the meal seemed scarcely begun . |
| 8 | When Terry went upstairs to change , Ellie went with her , and when they came down a short while later , when Terry and Declan were ready to leave , Ellie was right there beside them . |
| 9 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |
| 10 | ‘ I first noticed them when they carried out the hospital nursery raid about three years ago . |
| 11 | Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting . |
| 12 | There are blokes crying out there when they come off the pitch , when they 've been substituted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1985 French agents killed a photographer when they blew up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 17 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 18 | When they took over the , the mind of that man and that woman |
| 19 | How many of us can say that someone changed when they took on a certain job or changed when something happened at work . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Most borrowers did not anticipate this ; indeed , a 1989 survey by the Office of Fair Trading shows that only 37% of borrowers gave any thought at all to the likely future movement of interest rates when they took out a loan . |
| 22 | But I was stunned when they took out the curlers — it looked even worse ! ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | When they got back the little house was empty . |