Example sentences of "[coord] when they [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The splashes of their poles bounced round them , and when they spoke their voices bounced with them . |
| 5 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 6 | But when they booked their new car into Tristar Motors for its first service , they found their old model waiting for them . |
| 7 | 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 . |