Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] when they [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although experimental methods provide a highly economical and efficient method of investigating a speaker 's responses to particular items of structure , the main difficulty associated with them is the mismatch which sociolinguists have consistently found between what speakers claim when they are directly questioned , and what they actually do , as evidenced by their linguistic behaviour in naturally occurring conversation . |
| 2 | I relive the coded phone calls , secret smiles , late nights at the office and last-minute business trips — all the subterfuge husbands employ when they 're fucking other women and daring you to stop them . |
| 3 | Hopefully , that 's what bands get when they 're here now : more hours spent on each record because there 's only 12 artists . ’ |
| 4 | Skimming along the water-front with the peculiarly flat ride jeeps give when they 're not lurching on one wheel over lumpy terrain . |
| 5 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |