Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 2 | When Félicie Cendrars saw them again Jeanne and Modi were looking for a reliable wet-nurse , since neither she nor her mother ‘ could do anything with little Jeanne . |
| 3 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 4 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 5 | When Mme Fournier joined them , Flavia rose and relieved her of her market basket ; Fournier did neither . |
| 6 | All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock . |
| 7 | ‘ When Mr Ali asked them to leave , Sharp became aggressive and Mr Ali went into the kitchen . |
| 8 | They were all larking about but when Mr Leyland asked them to calm down Howe turned violent . |
| 9 | But when Mr Patterson followed them outside he was immediately attacked by Sharpe and chef Michael White , 26 , of Hebburn . |
| 10 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |
| 11 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 12 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 13 | When Captain Cook encountered them in 1778 the Eskimos of Bering Strait were using iron knives and wearing glass beads . |
| 14 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |
| 15 | there was no stopping Oxford then … they went for the kill … and looked to have got it when Anton Rogan blasted them into the lead … |