Example sentences of "when they [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , several studies have shown that , in a variety of ways , the upper socio-economic groups receive a better service than the lower socio-economic groups when they visit their general practitioner . |
| 2 | When they reach their next stopping place , they find not one but twelve springs of fresh water , one for each of their tribes . |
| 3 | Television documentary-makers asked them , respectfully , about exactly how they felt when they hacked their aged mothers to death or disembowelled a neighbour 's child . |
| 4 | Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms . |
| 5 | But when they booked their new car into Tristar Motors for its first service , they found their old model waiting for them . |
| 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 | We asked who led the Lancasters into action when they dropped their bouncing bombs . |
| 8 | Scarborough festival when they omitted their leading strike bowlers . |
| 9 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 10 | People living on the estate could n't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour . |
| 11 | It was here in Chambers Street that Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were living — probably , we may guess , as guests of brother Thomas at no. 11 — when they took their little son for baptism at St Mary Whitechapel in the March of 1809 , a few days short of his first birthday . |
| 12 | He had seen that look on the faces of mother ducks when they took their little flock down to the river for the first time . |
| 13 | The view that states imperil their own legitimacy when they offend their own subjects ' conservative conceptions of constitutionality is found more amongst other academic students of politics than amongst political scientists themselves . |
| 14 | Cobbett can himself recall the days when labourers ate bread and meat , not potatoes ; when they drank their home-brewed beer by their own fireside ; when young people could purchase decent furniture for a house when they married , without appealing to the parish for a miserable nest . |
| 15 | Relocation policies may include provision to protect or cushion employees against financial loss when they sell their old properties and buy elsewhere . |
| 16 | H R T contains es oestrogen , which is highly beneficial to older women at the change when they lose their natural supply . |
| 17 | ( Piontek was coach of denmark in the eigthies when they had their danish dynamite team which impressed in the world cup finals — the team including the likes of in-form Jan Molby , the elder Laudrup brother , Soren Lerby and a very good striker ( whose name slips me right now . |
| 18 | But when they take their first flight into the outside world , their losses begin . |
| 19 | The Ministry of Defence maintains a policy of not confirming whether weapons transporters are loaded with warheads when they make their regular trips through Glasgow . |
| 20 | ‘ The habits are blessed when they make their final vows , ’ I said . |
| 21 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 22 | The RAF Halton Gymnastic Display Team showed how well they are trained when they performed their sparkling routine in the Empress Ballroom on Friday evening . |
| 23 | They took Joly 's method a step further when they patented their autochrome system in 1904 . |
| 24 | They took Joly 's method a step further when they patented their autochrome system in 1904 . |
| 25 | Before they left the Irish capital , they told how pure joy replaced unbearable anguish when they learned their little girl had been found safe . |
| 26 | Friends of the Earth want legislation introduced which will make manufacturers put energy efficiency labels on their products and they are asking ministers to suggest such labels when they meet their European Community counterparts for green talks . |
| 27 | Now legislation arises either from major political commitments made by the Cabinet ( or earlier by the Shadow Cabinet while the party was in opposition ) , or it is of a more routine nature and comes from within the departments when they find their existing powers insufficient or inappropriate for the conduct of administration along accepted lines . |
| 28 | Remember also that most lecturers ( if they happen to be your examiners ) feel a strong revulsion and antipathy when they find their own cherished and " brilliant " arguments re-presented in a bowdlerised fashion from inadequate notes and a poor flogged memory . |
| 29 | Politicians are always at their most vulnerable when they believe their own propaganda . |
| 30 | ‘ Its Mum and Dad ca n't be far away , ’ he said , then continued , ‘ stags are normally nervous , but they get dead vicious when they think their young are threatened . ’ |