Example sentences of "when they [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the darkness and unannounced approach , the raiding party found the Armstrong chiefs , Mangerton , Gilnockie , Whithaugh and the rest , awaiting their arrival at Langholm , their ‘ capital ’ , with some hundreds of their very tough riders assembled , a significant indication of their excellent information system in this wild Border country ; and when they heard of the descent on Dacre 's castle of Gilsland , they appeared to take it for granted that they would go along . |
| 2 | How did the people here feel when they heard of the raid ? |
| 3 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 4 | When they complained of the long hours , Peckinpah had them fired . |
| 5 | When they learned of the crash , his brother and father came to the crash site . |
| 6 | Those twin notions of power and mystery mark much of the teaching of Old and New Testaments alike when they treat of the Spirit of God . |
| 7 | Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath . |
| 8 | He was a shadowy figure from the past whose name was scarcely ever mentioned except on those rare occasions when they spoke of the accident , that terrible accident that had claimed the lives of him and her mother when Harriet was only four years old . |
| 9 | When they spoke of the marks of fingers , I remembered the murder of my brother and I felt a terrible fear . |