Example sentences of "when they [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 2 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 3 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 4 | When they give you the horrible one which is the answer |
| 5 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |