Example sentences of "when they were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was your father , the Earl , who came up when they were already lighting the fire , ’ Simon 's voice said from behind her . |
| 2 | The Canadian Human Rights Commission released a report on Jan. 15 which concluded that the rights of a group of native Inuit had been violated when they were forcibly relocated from northern Quebec to the Arctic wilderness of Cornwallis and Ellesmere Islands . |
| 3 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 4 | HOLYWOOD failed to take advantage of playing at home in the Halifax Properties Floodlit Trophy final when they were well policed by the RUC at Kerr Park last night . |
| 5 | Allowing for those who were too selfish to want to help even when they were well qualified to do so , and those who were manifestly unsuitable to act as foster parents , because they were too young , too old or too inexperienced — a third , say , of the total , it was unrealistic to expect the Jewish community to absorb 10,000 refugee children . |
| 6 | He did n't even speak as he opened the passenger door for her , but when they were both seated inside , he did n't start the engine , simply sat there instead , gazing out over the slightly sloping and now largely empty car park . |
| 7 | Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’ |
| 8 | She talks about the Labeque relationship , about how she and her sister trained separately at Paris Conservatoire , and how , in their teens , when they were both set on solo careers , they would never have dreamed of playing duets . |
| 9 | When they were both soaked in the greasy oil , she watched him pour the remainder of the bottle over the rubber sheet . |
| 10 | Over most of enclosed England , the small fields were hedged around with hawthorn fences , more or less thickly interspersed with ash and elm — the great trees of the Midlands — which when they were full grown gave the appearance of an almost continuous wood , especially when seen from an eminence . |
| 11 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 12 | And when they were later approached by the police they claimed that they were unaware they were being arrested . |
| 13 | They were arrested three weeks later in Liverpool when they were again seen to remove the cash box from a kiosk . |
| 14 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 15 | Gassendi 's empiricist views on the derivation of our ideas from sense-experience , on natural philosophy and its foundation in carefully considered observation , and his stress on the explanatory value of Epicurean atomism , were already well known to Hobbes and others when they were formally introduced into England via the publication , in 1654 , of Walter Charleton 's Physiologia Epicuro-gassendo-Charltonia : a Fabrick of Science Natural upon the Hypothesis of Atoms , Founded by Epicurus , Repaired by Petrus Gassendus , Augmented by Walter Charleton . |
| 16 | The APU fairs even worse with regard to consultation ; for example the six lines of development were not the subject of debate when they were initially proposed . |
| 17 | Margaret Grundy and Lucy Dallas sported vague notions of being rich and famous when they were still pushing each other round the playground . |
| 18 | ( d ) As she discussed with her father when they were recently reconciled , she has ceased to be a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 19 | The confessional is a matter of secrecy , but what is not secret is that , when they were really working at it , the previous Labour Government ensured that far more than 7 million days a year were lost through strikes . |
| 20 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 21 | But when they were originally written erm I think it were f seen as fairly low key but now they 've taken , assumed a much greater importance in terms of them being the actual service specification for the new careers services under the , the employment legislation . |
| 22 | Some of these were given AZT from the start ; the others were given a placebo until they developed symptoms of either AIDS or AIDS-related complex ( ARC ) , when they were then switched to AZT . |
| 23 | Was it true ? she demanded of the silly girl : that she 'd run away from the boys when they were only trying to be friendly ? |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , dear , what a shame when they were only trying to show their appreciation . ’ |
| 25 | The British complained when they were only given a quarter of new EC fishing quotas despite providing sixty per cent of the fishing grounds . |
| 26 | They would soon be arrested for indulging in some pornographic practice when they were only wanting to wash one another 's feet . |
| 27 | ‘ Why did Uncle Titch never grow up ? ’ he asked once when they were home having tea . |
| 28 | Thus two speakers who normally use hardly any Creole forms might feel they were " chatting Patois " when they were actually using fewer Creole tokens than two heavy Creole users who felt they were speaking " ordinary English . " |
| 29 | There is more variety and imagination than before and of course an opportunity to specify stricter flow and speed characteristics for these roads than when they were less differentiated . |
| 30 | This shows significant differences : women 's wishes were taken into account most frequently when they were informally admitted or not admitted . |