Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 2 | When they began to investigate the tiny houses , they found other bodies : men , women , children … . |
| 3 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 4 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 5 | But when they came to lift the body , there was this bird 's head . |
| 6 | When they came to plan the project in detail , the teachers ( planning together in this school in year groups ) worked together to construct a series of carefully designed ‘ activities ’ — a total of six in all . |
| 7 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 8 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 9 | The attacks caused localized damage and injuries , and up to three elderly Israeli women suffocated when they failed to remove the filter caps from their gas masks . |
| 10 | When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break , they found parts of the posts missing and broken . |
| 11 | In opposition the Conservatives had , it is true , pressed for a select committee , but when they returned to power the Commons committee they established was quite ineffective . |
| 12 | ‘ We must return home , ’ she told Anna when they had made the daisy chain and hung it around the little girl 's neck . |
| 13 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 14 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 15 | And when they had reached the place where the mine widened |
| 16 | He would just have to walk , openly , away from the main body of the school , get downwind of Maisie , stalk her carefully , and , when they had reached the birch-trees on the other side of Cannizaro Road , creep up on her and leap out at her when she was n't looking . |
| 17 | But after the first explorations and when they had absorbed the impact of the delight of the situation , the girl began to be restless . |
| 18 | Anyway when they had done the rounds of your local relatives they contacted your father . |
| 19 | The few other tourists who had been here had hurried for cover when they had seen the black sky approaching . |
| 20 | The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy . |
| 21 | They had gone through the buildings when they had searched the area previously but on that occasion , as Owen reminded himself crossly , he had been summoned away in the middle by that foolish District Chief and sent on that wild goose chase down to the river . |
| 22 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |
| 23 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |
| 24 | And later , when they had mentioned the unicorn to the Friar his eyes had become angry and he had demanded to know what reason they had for believing the unicorn was in the forest and had not been calmed until they explained . |
| 25 | Giles , when they had parked the car , dived into the back and produced a bottle of wine . |
| 26 | When they had negotiated the outskirts of the city , she demanded to be driven instantly to the hotel . |
| 27 | When they had passed the house he stood in the bay and watched their progress . |
| 28 | He turned left when they had passed the hotels , parked the car in the space reserved for vehicles and they climbed out , stretched , stood looking at the view . |
| 29 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 30 | When they had caught the less dry fuel was used , and the fire grew , much to the company 's relief . |