Example sentences of "when they were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 2 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 3 | They seemed quite wide to me when they were leaning against the wall . |
| 4 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 6 | They were heavily defeated ; Bulgarian soldiers were about to enter Belgrade when they were halted by the threat of Austrian intervention . |
| 7 | He 'd noticed this when they were trespassing on the embankment one day , playing Robin Hood and his Merrie Men . |
| 8 | They proved it could be done when they were faced with the task of building a glass conservatory restaurant over the water in the Queen 's Graving Dock underneath the new building . |
| 9 | The kind of social relationship which existed between certain teachers and this group of boys became very apparent when one examined the terms of reference used by the boys when they were referring to the teachers and themselves ; ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 10 | The cartoons caused outrage when they were leaked to the press last week . |
| 11 | Court dress was the particular form of costume worn by ladies when they were presented to the monarch . |
| 12 | Indeed , none of these statements , apart from two short but damning extracts from Zaidie 's statement which the prosecution put into evidence , came to light at all ( and consequently were not available to the Court of Appeal ) until 20 July 1990 , three days before the presentation of the petition for special leave to appeal , when they were furnished to the defendant 's advisers at the insistence of Mr. Guthrie who had by then been instructed on behalf of the Crown . |
| 13 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 14 | The investments were extremely profitable , however , and the companies were among the most successful in the country when they were nationalized into the NCB in 1947 . |
| 15 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 16 | Mainly what the sect vans were carrying when they were raided by the police . |
| 17 | Kraak also showed that maps illustrating the values of a variable in 2D shaded polygons best formed a ‘ map-to-see ’ when they were displayed with the variable visualized in 3D . |
| 18 | They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night ! |
| 19 | The DIY was given a lower priority from then on but , even when they were working on the house , the mood changed enormously . |
| 20 | Stewart was in charge on two of the occasions when they were reported by the umpires . |
| 21 | Although serfs became free only when they were recruited into the regular army , not when they enrolled in a militia , in the mid-1850s they chose to believe otherwise . |
| 22 | A checklist of predictors was applied to the maternity notes of all non-Asian women who had delivered a child under consultant care when they were discharged from the maternity unit . |
| 23 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 24 | There 's no doubt about it , the government should do a lot more and I 'm sorry to leave on this kind of basic note , the thing what really got was when they were talking about the coal miners and I mean , I know that particular area quite well , where they , they said we 'll put some money in for training ! |
| 25 | But the British authorities were unable to protect the Littlejohns when they were arrested for the robbery of £67,000 from a bank in Grafton Street , Dublin , in 1972 . |
| 26 | Once , when they were playing at the Durham Miners Gala , they could n't raise the price of a pint , so the drummer sold his drum kit to keep the drinks flowing . |
| 27 | But the troops were forced onto the defensive when they were caught by the fire of several crack Panzer regiments , which had n't been spotted by Allied intelligence . |
| 28 | ‘ Reference to the transcript of the judgment in that case however reveals that the decision did not turn on concealment in the shopping bag but was expressly upon the ground that the goods were appropriated when they were taken from the shelves . |
| 29 | Given the wide range in dates represented by the fragments ; the fact that no two have yet been found to fit together and vary considerably in size ; and the lack of any signs of wreckage ; the current hypothesis is that the statues were already broken when they were loaded into the transport ship to be taken for re-use elsewhere . |
| 30 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |