Example sentences of "when they have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does not he think it right that all such pensioners should receive compensation when they have lost so much pension due to his complacency and reprehensible laxity ? |
| 2 | Their secret is stamina rather than speed and when they have worn down their prey the kill is clumsy but efficient . |
| 3 | When they have to go in , he 's there , it means it 's all less terrifying , less alien , and they have a better chance . |
| 4 | Only then will they win the middle ground , and only then will they give their policies a chance to persist when they have moved out of office . |
| 5 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 6 | The bed trundles forward to attack the adventurers when they have moved fully into the room . |
| 7 | Anorexics have a false idea of their own appearance , seeing themselves as fat even when they have become painfully thin . |
| 8 | Some people , for example , feel less constrained in a language other than their mother tongue when they have felt too burdened by words and idioms used by their mother . |
| 9 | Given this pattern of repeat business , and of agents who have a collection round which week after week includes the same customers , it is typical for customers to start another check when they have paid off the one before . |
| 10 | Telling a child that he or she is bad when they have behaved wrongly is common in the West , but as Susan Sontag has observed , it is unheard of in the East , where the child would be told to be ashamed of itself . |
| 11 | Among his observations is the following assessment of the sexual cunning of the tom-cat : ‘ As the females when they have kittened no longer seek the company of the males , these last , to obtain once more their companionship , practise a curious artifice . |
| 12 | Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting . |
| 13 | When they have cooled completely , remove the curlers carefully . |
| 14 | When the band have achieved considerable chart success ( when they have sold approximately a million copies of their albums ) , they should consider whether a royalty examination should be done . |
| 15 | It never ceases to amaze me what human beings can do when they have to dig deep . |
| 16 | How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues . |
| 17 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 18 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 19 | Thus the right to provide services has actually been invoked by nationals against their own state , when they have taken up residence abroad . |