Example sentences of "when they [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Because the senior members on the flats that have been living here since it was put up , when they came to live on complex , they reckoned it was the place to come and live .
2	Now again I mentioned this last week , the idea of introducing schoolchildren at a very young age to different countries and different cultures so that in fact when they come to go on holiday on their own or with a partner it holds no fear for them unlike , if you like , senior citizens might do .
3	However , they are not Calvinists when they come to think about politics .
4	When they 've felt like a' dae it 's a sign they 'll be movin' oan soon . ’
5	‘ I want you to take over from Nurse Calvert when they 've finished in Room G with Mrs Cole . ’
6	When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him .
7	When they had got into bed , it was Toby 's custom to read them a chapter or two of a book — the school had a tattered library of elderly boys ' books , most of them left behind by ex-pupils .
8	Intolerant workers tended to show cycles longer or shorter than twenty-four hours when they were on shifts , although they had normal twenty-four cycles when they had returned to day-work .
9	A good illustration of the difference between the two types of thought is given by the two National Diploma students who had analysed what they wanted from a job when they had finished at college .
10	That 's where the sheep go when they want to go to bed .
11	They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice , when they want to weep with terror and self-pity .
12	They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it .

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