Example sentences of "when they [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others are tormented by a sense of their own unreality — " What are we to talk about ? " is one refrain and , when they do talk , they misunderstand and confuse each other . |
| 2 | Educational psychologists also work with children under school age who are likely to have special educational needs when they do start school , usually those children with a severe , or early-diagnosed , difficulty . |
| 3 | ‘ However , unless you have good succession planning when they do leave , everything tends to fall apart ! ’ |
| 4 | It is interesting to note that when they do discover some titbit amongst the bottom debris , they very rarely charge off with it as they normally do when picking up our hookbaits . |
| 5 | when he , when they do discover it , when he does discover it for himself , he thinks , hey , I can do this and I invented this myself . |
| 6 | Many participant-observers feel quite limited in the extent that they can introduce recording apparatus ; when they do record group interaction with a minimum of other observational effects , the data is limited in both quality and quantity . |
| 7 | This is because at first they lack the strength to hurt , and when they do acquire it they quickly learn that a too-powerful play-attack ends the enjoyable encounter . |
| 8 | When they do lend , banks will increasingly favour big companies . |
| 9 | They can multiply faster than the chromosomes , because , when they do move , a copy is left behind at the old site as well as a new copy appearing at the new one . |
| 10 | Because males and females of this species encounter each other so infrequently , when they do meet they will remain stuck together for several months . |
| 11 | Even when they do meet , on flat overcast weekday afternoons at her house , it 's often hopeless . |
| 12 | And even when they do make a specific choice , non-cost factors are generally more important to them than cost factors . |
| 13 | Contrary to ( uninformed ? ) views sometimes expressed it is acknowledged that physical geographers are respected for the contribution that they can make — when they do make a specific contribution . |
| 14 | In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) . |
| 15 | When they do go , spit will have one hell of a job rebuilding that side — and he s not good enough to do it . |
| 16 | The travellers say they 've already started a clean-up operation and when they do go , nobody will ever know they were there . |
| 17 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 18 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 19 | When they do vote , they usually cast their votes on national issues : Neil Kinnock called for the June 1989 elections to be a judgement on Mrs Thatcher 's term in office . |
| 20 | Such cases will be rare , but when they do arise , as was the case with Miss T. , the courts can and will provide immediate assistance . |
| 21 | But when they do arise , police and military planners are caught on the horns of a dangerous dilemma : do they smash in quickly and run the risk of death or injury ? |
| 22 | And when they do wake up to the situation , they find that the combat against relativism is not a clean , hand-to-hand fight but a wearing war of nerves against an enemy who is everywhere and nowhere , friendly but deadly at the same time . |
| 23 | Because these canisters when they do blow they can spread debris quite some considerable distances . |
| 24 | Although there are numbers that can not be expressed as a sum of three squares , for instance 7 , Gauss had managed to find the number of expressions when they do exist . |
| 25 | To the grown man visionary experiences come infrequently , but when they do appear the effect is profound , as in ‘ the Blind Beggar ’ episode ; caught in the maelstrom of London , the poet is admonished as if from another world' ( see page 64 ) . |
| 26 | With Piggy 's glasses , I should think that a ) very few people apart from oculists , opticians and bespectacled professors of English would notice ; and b ) when they do notice , they merely detonate the error — like blowing up a small bomb with a controlled explosion . |
| 27 | Teamwork is vital for the tougher , more challenging activities which , whilst less frequent , are more crucial when they do occur . |
| 28 | Opportunities for interaction with an adult will of necessity be reduced but , when they do occur , one would hope that , with the benefit of professional training , teachers would ensure these opportunities were at least as enabling as those that occur at home . |
| 29 | Moreover , when they do occur they are more often allowed to operate in territories ( in both a spatial and a policy sense ) in which others ' intervention is limited . |
| 30 | Well you you need when they do harm they |