Example sentences of "[noun sg] when they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 2 | And the reps on the holiday co coach when they take you from airport , sometimes say yes and sometimes say no . |
| 3 | North themselves had contributed to Ballymena 's fate when they beat them by runs on Saturday at Eaton Park . |
| 4 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 5 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 7 | Others discriminate against students on grounds of sexual orientation when they suspect them of being gay or lesbian ; others on class or a whole range of subjective , stereotypical responses to the unfamiliar . |
| 8 | His father was born in Germany , and a teenager when they brought him to Detroit . |
| 9 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 10 | FOUR men who saved the life of a woman when they rescued her from her blazing home were honoured for their bravery yesterday . |
| 11 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 12 | Mike Widmer , group managing director for Caldaire , said yesterday that a deputation from the firm would ask Mr Freeman to waive the clause when they meet him in London on Thursday . |
| 13 | He relapsed into a dangerous silence when they accused him of ‘ breaking family ties ’ by his refusal to stop writing letters to the Strickers ' home . |
| 14 | She was only thirteen stone when they took her in that last time , she was massive , she must of only been about five foot |
| 15 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 16 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 17 | Ministers can experience difficulty when they find themselves in a situation where refusing the baptism is their only option and parents can take grave offence . |
| 18 | The children knew that the little bunnies were coming and they were so careful of the mother when they fed her with lettuce and cabbage . |
| 19 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |