Example sentences of "[coord] when they [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And when they reached his bank , she thought , she 'd broach the subject of the safety-deposit box . |
| 4 | She was utterly pliant as his lips traced her neck and cheeks , and when they brushed her own again she felt warmth flood over her . |
| 5 | As they entered the little general store , Fen produced a long list of necessities , and when they left their arms were piled high with brown paper bags . |
| 6 | Parents would not see their children for most of the day , and when they finished their daily work they would be too tired for much except rest . |
| 7 | And when they sited their power stations , they decided erm , again for good economic reasons , to site them er along the channel coast and actually down the , down the Rhine most of the power stations are , are er th they have power stations elsewhere but a lot of the power stations are in these areas here and the reason for that was , by putting it near to their borders , they were able to export electricity to their neighbours . |
| 8 | The splashes of their poles bounced round them , and when they spoke their voices bounced with them . |
| 9 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 10 | But when they reached his room Leonora wriggled out of his arms and stood on the bedside rug , hands behind her back , guilt flooding her now in full force at the look in his eyes . |
| 11 | They even tried next door , but when they discovered our neighbours do n't use cocopeat , they came straight back again ! |
| 12 | But when they booked their new car into Tristar Motors for its first service , they found their old model waiting for them . |
| 13 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |