Example sentences of "when they [vb past] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of March they were delighted when they received a letter saying they had been shortlisted to take part . |
| 2 | However , Hove soon brought the scores closer when they dropped a goal following concerted pressure near the Haslemere line . |
| 3 | The brave mum , who has two daughters and a son , was out shopping with her husband in Friern Barnet , North London , when they saw a robbery going on . |
| 4 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |
| 5 | when they had a horse running that stood to lose the firm a lot of money . |
| 6 | They were trotting along a path on the side of a hill when they detected a man walking below them . |
| 7 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 8 | U2 were left red-faced with embarrassment in Berlin when they joined a demo celebrating German reunification . |