Example sentences of "when they went [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye had asked when they went over the fields to fetch the creamy milk from Home Farm . |
| 3 | However , when they went into the field to try him , he was vicious and unmanageable ; and reared up when anyone endeavoured to mount him . |
| 4 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 5 | When they went into the dining room , Stephen 's mother joined them . |
| 6 | The visit to the Brewery Company presented no problems , and they were in and out of the office within half an hour ; when they went into the chop-house on the stroke of twelve , they were the first customers . |
| 7 | When they went into the big bedroom , Patrick was seated in an armchair facing the door , dressed in his blue serge suit waiting for Rosie . |
| 8 | Everyone had gone except this boorish man and his sleazy dirty place , and the poor old decrepit cleaner , who did n't seem particularly dismayed at the sight that greeted their eyes when they went into the room where the reception had been held . |
| 9 | When they went into the crowded dining-room for dinner two people sprang up and came straight towards them . |
| 10 | Some 2,500 out of over 8,000 workers began taking the masks when they went into the forest to cut wood , collect honey or fish . |
| 11 | When they went into the room , Steiner was standing at the window gripping the bar and looking out . |
| 12 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 13 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 14 | When they went down the road the air was getting pleasant . |
| 15 | You know when they said , when they went for a very radical policy |
| 16 | The Letter of 1027 reports that he visited Rome to pray for the redemption of his sins and the security of his subjects , and tells how he had negotiated with the pope a reduction in the sums paid by English archbishops when they went for the pallium . |
| 17 | TORRENTIAL rain greeted a group of golfers from Glasgow 's West George Street Grouping when they went on an outing to Millport Golf Club on the island of Great Cumbrae . |
| 18 | On one occasion , they locked her in the car when they went to a call and wound up the window to prevent her overhearing . |
| 19 | TV soap star Sue Nicholls has put off her wedding to actor Mark Eden — because there was a queue when they went to a London register office . |
| 20 | If American think-tankers would find Germany odd , they would be floored by Japan — but would cock an interested eyebrow when they went to the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | So the negative measures ( abolition of parties , abolition of parts of the state ) and the positive ideology had elements in common with the principles which underlay both private and public discussion , and which informed people 's decisions when they went to the polls . |
| 22 | It was extremely upsetting and the generously exposed support of the Honourable the Colonel Alexander Augustus Hope , M. P. , when they went to the site of Allan Bank was very warmly appreciated . |
| 23 | Because everything was handmade , er all the holes in the er timbers , they had to be carefully er marked out so that y er when they went to the wood machines there was a er they would be bored in the right place , and the right size of holes . |
| 24 | It also included statements by the Palm Beach police detailing how they were misled when they went to the estate to speak with Senator Kennedy and Smith on March 31 . |
| 25 | Scum could nt beat them when they went to the Sty with the same negative defence . |
| 26 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 27 | Then when they went to the photographers half past ten shut . |