Example sentences of "when they [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the French girls at her Swiss boarding school had told her that boys liked a girl to have a ‘ poitrine ’ and they became very excited when they touched a girl 's breast ; this , she had maintained , explained the fashion for dresses which made a girl look flat-chested — so that as many as possible would not inflame men 's passions and would thereby remain virgins . |
| 2 | Rank had funded his forays into production on the back of profits accruing from the exhibition of US pictures but , instead of standing firm with the American companies when they announced a boycott of British screens , he decided to boost his own company 's production . |
| 3 | Except that their role is more obscure to the public eye , the authorities ' influence over short-term interest rates is not very different from what it used to be when they announced an MLR each week and expected institutions to comply . |
| 4 | When they adopted a candidate — one Sir Ernest Petter — the official Conservative candidate , Colonel Moore-Brabazon , at once withdrew . |
| 5 | But it also meant trying to contact families and individuals — doctors , schools , health visitors , housing departments , etc. — when they felt a family had too many problems . |
| 6 | Bennett was also worried about the lack of allowance made for the impact that HMIs have when they visit a school ( the term for this is ‘ reactivity ’ , which will be discussed in Part Three ) . |
| 7 | At the end of March they were delighted when they received a letter saying they had been shortlisted to take part . |
| 8 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 9 | When they discovered a pair of woman 's shoes they decided to hunt for more clues , even joking that ‘ we might find a body . ’ |
| 10 | The public relations branch of the company they worked for had several fits when they discovered an entry in the city directory that read Maxted , Sally — Dressmaker . |
| 11 | Like ordinary people in general , old people usually show up vividly in the record only when they become a problem . |
| 12 | They offer three options for Horton : to Roughly stay as they are when they become a health Service Trust ; TO ’ Examine ’ the Accident and other acute services ; or to move the acute services away to major hospitals . |
| 13 | David was one of those frustrating , enigmatic footballers who perform brilliantly in opposition against you , but who never reproduce such quality of performance when they become a player at your club . |
| 14 | MALONE begin the defence of the Ulster Senior Cup title amid a host of problems when they undertake a repeat of last year 's final against North at Ormeau . |
| 15 | My advice is : avoid mefloquine , advise patients to take chloroquine , and add Paludrine when they reach a country where it is obtainable . |
| 16 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 17 | Smokers screw up their eyes and lips when they puff a cigarette and this can surely lead to more wrinkles . |
| 18 | When they applied a voltage to the grid , the pyrole polymerised onto it . |
| 19 | When they applied a voltage of — 0.7 V to the mesh they found that the resistance to passage of chloride ions was ten times greater than at zero volts . |
| 20 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 21 | THREE charities reaped the benefit of another year of fund raising by staff at Airdrie Branch when they shared a record amount of more than £2,500 . |
| 22 | Seb remembered what Anna had said to him when they shared a haystack bed on the road back from Charwelton . |
| 23 | Neither , sometimes could his disciples understand their master , rambling when drunk , as observed one evening by British novelist Kingsley Amis when they shared a college platform in Boston debating new liberalism . |
| 24 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 25 | George and Elizabeth were on the point of going to bed when they heard a knock on the door . |
| 26 | Last October , in their most serious attack on tourists , Gama'a militants shot dead a British woman when they ambushed a bus in southern Egypt . |
| 27 | When they demanded a move next morning they were told there was nowhere else . |
| 28 | Where were you when they put a man on the moon ? ’ |
| 29 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 30 | An official statement on April 3 reported six " separatist terrorists " , including two women , killed by the army in the province of Sirnak when they ignored an order to surrender . |