Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun pl] when they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW pupils at a dog obedience class were all shapes and sizes when they arrived for their first lesson yesterday . |
| 2 | What he also could n't be expected to know ( and thank goodness he did n't ) , was how much more morally devastating were the V1 and V2 buzz bombs and rockets when they started falling on London soon after D-Day . |
| 3 | We often simply do not know in what ways people in the past were drawing on ideas about obligations , rights or duties when they provided assistance for their kin ( Medick and Sabean , 1984 , pp. 20–1 ) . |
| 4 | The situation might be improved if young girls were allowed to develop sexual feelings and activities when they reached puberty . |
| 5 | The Law Commission was against one , on the grounds that a rigid definition could be more easily evaded , and that , in individual cases , the courts and legal advisers would recognise standard terms and conditions when they saw them . |
| 6 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 7 | That was just exuberance on the part of the children and teachers when they chopped off all her hair and Super Glued it to her chin . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ she 'd say to the daffodils and tulips when they had stopped flowering , ‘ I 'll see you again next year . ’ |
| 9 | Of course it was convenient for factory-owners to build an element of flexibility into their businesses by using women as outworkers when they needed to . |
| 10 | Greek images were also used by physiognomists and ethnologists when they began to create racist classification systems which placed the Greek profile as the highest development of humanity , above Jewish people with African peoples lower down the scale , represented so as to approximate their profiles with those of primates and apes at the bottom . |