Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er he gives them a lot of moral support and in their blast off parties when they 're ready to go out and conduct the missile competition , er he really stirs the pot and gets the guys moving . |
| 2 | Another thing : not enough men would be in the middle waiting for crosses when they came and like I said before the crosses were mostly aiming for heads — or for Deano 's head . |
| 3 | On broadleaved woods in the uplands , the CC suggest that ‘ MAFF grant rules be revised to allow broadleaved woods to be included in HLCA calculations during periods when they are enclosed to allow regeneration ’ . |
| 4 | This can be difficult initially for parents when they are not used to doing it , but after a little practice and getting over their embarrassment it starts to flow more easily . |
| 5 | I am not surprised that the Minister has not mentioned redundancy payments for miners when they are closing pits willy-nilly . |
| 6 | Why are they worried about wardrobes when they 're getting married all they need 's a bed . |
| 7 | The Modular Examinations Committee uses the ‘ 21 rule ’ in considering the eligibility of students to continue for honours when they arrive at the end of the third year with less than 18 passes . |
| 8 | It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do . |
| 9 | MILBURNGATE COUNTY LEAGUE KIMBLESWORTH are looking to complete a hat trick of wins when they take on Leadgate today . |
| 10 | Welcome back : Still to come on Central South … the problems encountered by a group of abseilers when they tackled a six hundred foot power station chimney . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder ’ , she said , ‘ whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence ? ’ |
| 12 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 13 | Some shaikhs saw no conflict of roles when they were themselves involved in disputes with members of their lineage , and used every means at their disposal to win an argument about , say , rights to land . |
| 14 | Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub . |
| 15 | Horribly aware that he was watching her every move , she tentatively slid the skis forward , uttering up a silent word of thanks when they obeyed . |
| 16 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 17 | This is especially likely in cases where the dog is soiling its quarters , or showing signs of abnormal sexual behaviour , such as mounting your leg or that of visitors when they are sitting down . |
| 18 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 19 | The survey of seven airlines found the average age of pilots when they died was 61 . |
| 20 | ‘ The 1991 Dangerous Dog Bill already gives the Secretary of State a reserve power to impose muzzling or leashing on other types of dogs when they are considered to present a serious danger to the public . |
| 21 | Nearly 40 years ago these two were trading bullets over the river Potong-Gang , and sometimes it is not far short of hostilities when they trade shots on the pitch . |
| 22 | MALONE begin the defence of the Ulster Senior Cup title amid a host of problems when they undertake a repeat of last year 's final against North at Ormeau . |
| 23 | The two former East Germans were the butt of jokes when they entered the tiny 594cc car in one of the toughest tests for both man and machine . |
| 24 | In studying the expansion of metals when they are heated , it is more profitable to limit the role of observers ' intuitions to , for instance , judgements of the position of the top of a column of mercury relative to a graduated scale . |
| 25 | Such deeds or instruments as a rule require for their validity to be registered under the Bills of Sale Acts ( 1878 and 1882 ) , which have been passed to prevent persons from obtaining credit by continuing to remain in possession of goods when they have secretly transferred their interest in them to others . |
| 26 | League leaders Hibs have to pick themselves up from their League Cup final defeat at the hands of Rangers when they meet Hearts in the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road tomorrow . |
| 27 | League leaders Hibs have to pick themselves up from their League Cup final defeat at the hands of Rangers when they meet Hearts in the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road tomorrow . |
| 28 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 29 | All too often they are accused of exploiting cats to satisfy the competitive urges of the exhibitors , and it might be imagined that they would favour the de-clawing operation to facilitate the handling of cats when they are being judged at shows . |
| 30 | Laing had worked some fiddle and had n't minded being caught ; he said he 'd proved that the state only acknowledged the work of mothers when they did n't do it … |