Example sentences of "[adj] when they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At a subsequent season they were less keen when they found they were expected to work on a raft near the famous Sporting Club . |
| 32 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 33 | And course , they had , with us you know at one time and now they 've got that holiday again now , so I mean none of them would of been cheap when they did it . |
| 34 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |
| 35 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 36 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 37 | I always found the idea of people who were very hard to please , including journalists who were very critical — I always found they were almost always right when they found something praiseworthy . |
| 38 | I half-wished he could get away — though where would he go if he did ? — and was sorry when they caught him , though he seemed docile enough and stood calmly by his captor , who patted his neck as he threw his head up and down . |
| 39 | He dozed on the short drive , but unfortunately he was wide awake and very horny when they reached their hotel room . |
| 40 | The palazzo was silent when they reached it . |
| 41 | Once , at school , the girls had amused themselves by putting together the perfect woman , and Jane had been surprised when they chose her eyes , which were large and brown . |
| 42 | Andrew , 38 , a buyer for a sports equipment company , said they were very surprised when they learned they had been entered . |
| 43 | The select band of customers scattered throughout Hampshire who know Carol 's work were not at all surprised when they learned who had created the rings . |
| 44 | He 'd been sure Joe was dead when they left him . |
| 45 | She was dead when they picked her up . ’ |
| 46 | They were all terrified when they heard he was arriving back prematurely . ’ |