Example sentences of "[conj] when they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 2 | If they 'd have known that when they got they got out , |
| 3 | I thought that when they took my trousers off I would have a zip mark on the old fellow . |
| 4 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 5 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 6 | He guessed that when they made their report , probably by radio to a close in-surface unit , the MOD would finish the job and order the destruction of the Titron . |
| 7 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 9 | Did n't they tell you that when they sent you to collect me ? ’ |
| 10 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 11 | ‘ Only that the house agents called it that when they advertised it . |
| 12 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 13 | Whenever the students thought they were evaluating the work of a man , they assessed it as far more impressive than when they thought it was authored by a woman , whose efforts were labelled mediocre . |
| 14 | You 're certainly looking a lot better than when they brought you in . |
| 15 | And when they reached her , she said , ‘ He 's taken an overdose . ’ |
| 16 | And when they reached him , they would have to stop . |
| 17 | There were some trees below them , and when they reached them he slowed , she followed suit , and then he swished to a halt . |
| 18 | At the hotel Luke collected both keys from the night porter , and when they reached her room he unlocked the door and held it open for her , then closed it behind him . |
| 19 | His hands caressed her back , then caressed down to her waist , and when they reached her hips he moulded her thinly clad body against him . |
| 20 | And when they reached his bank , she thought , she 'd broach the subject of the safety-deposit box . |
| 21 | The Court felt that , ‘ Such information can be of tremendous historical value in demonstrating what agency personnel were involved in making a particular policy decision and what officials knew and when they knew it . ’ |
| 22 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |
| 23 | She wanted to know what cancer was and when they said it was terminal , she asked what that meant . |
| 24 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 25 | They 'd stand there and laugh at you , or say things to get you going , and when they felt they 'd wound you up they 'd walk away laughing . |
| 26 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 27 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 28 | She struggled to get the words out and when they came they hurt so much . |
| 29 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 30 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |