Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] when [pron] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped only when we told them to leave . |
| 2 | No need to tell them about Charlie and getting married or the unholy row with Mama or the hell that was let loose when she told them she 'd had her medical for the WRNS and if anyone tried to stop her going … |
| 3 | His brother Nails was already there , terrorizing the deep end , but came out when he saw them and hung around — presumably to find out how awful they were . |
| 4 | Similarly , whereas over half of the sample ( 57 per cent ) admitted to always or mostly continuing to drink even when they knew they were intoxicated , at the end of the course 60 per cent said this rarely or never occurred . |
| 5 | And then one pair were , did n't fit right when she got them home , so , I 've took them back and , got another pair . |
| 6 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 7 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 8 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 9 | Well , they they just , they go away when you take them somewhere fresh . |
| 10 | Yes , so any words here that that look unpronounceable , turn out when you say them , to be modern , to be exactly the same as modern words , except that of course , you do n't have an f ending , as you know . |
| 11 | cos it was only like sort of eight inches difference and I thought well when I wash 'em they might shrink anyway |
| 12 | For the past weeks Edouard had had to force himself to look at newspapers : all he saw there when he opened them was confirmation and repetition : accident , sickness , violence and sudden death , handed out evenly to the guilty and the innocent . |
| 13 | They seldom waved or called to us , responding only when we greeted them with a most unEgyptian reserve . |
| 14 | Well , well you do anyway when you see them on telly and they 're all hanging round the , you know , the , the A N C meetings they all go up and down like this |
| 15 | ‘ All her friends were knocked sideways when she rang them and told them she had got spliced . |
| 16 | We do ask them how old they are and if they are younger they bottle out when you ask them |
| 17 | They were rather taken aback when they realised they would be learning about the way the planning system operates ! |