Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they rushed to his hospital dragging hampers , he was practically levitating with relief . |
| 2 | Best of all when they died in her hands . |
| 3 | That concern turned to heartbreak when they heard of his mother 's grim fate . |
| 4 | That concern turned to heartbreak when they heard of his mother 's grim fate . |
| 5 | ‘ At Risley when they heard about my sentencing , I was told there was a near riot . ’ |
| 6 | He made as if to talk to them when they melted before his very eyes ; he could n't believe it and as the guard approached he told him what he had seen . |
| 7 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 8 | When they went into his house , ‘ where their best entertainment was his quiet company ‘ , his wife continually interrupted their conversation by busying him with domestic duties . |
| 9 | It is easy to assume that people were therefore pursuing their own interests , were unprincipled when they went about their politicking . |
| 10 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 11 | Courtney was also found guilty of indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old factory worker when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 12 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 13 | It was as if their lives had been aimless , random as pinballs , but when they came inside her door , there was a chair especially for them and a mug chosen for their tea . |
| 14 | Their relatives were overjoyed that they could see them on stage when they returned to their home town in the summer for a couple of weeks at the prestigious new Palace of Varieties . |
| 15 | When they returned to their seats Iraqi jets began to strafe the runway and tanks moved in closing the airport , seizing the plane . |
| 16 | Only adults could do that , when they checked on your health . |
| 17 | Through his twenties and early thirties he had a succession of short-lived relationships with girlfriends which usually ended when they tired of his unreliable and generally difficult behaviour . |
| 18 | When they got to her door Sarella turned . |
| 19 | She was still seething when they got into his luxury car , hired , he told her , as he did n't keep one of his own here , his visits to Taipei being infrequent and usually brief . |
| 20 | He was weaving in and out of the cars , jumping over them when they got in his way , his face hard and grim with determination . |
| 21 | I learned how to catch birds when they migrated to our part of the country during the winter . |
| 22 | In such a situation in a foreign country I am never able to speak the language , so when they asked for my passport I just said ‘ Hotel ’ , because Spanish hotels always kept visitors ' passports , at any rate for the first night . |
| 23 | He was distressed when they asked about his wife 's fidelity , and in her turn Mrs T was accused of infidelity as she was interrogated separately from her husband . |
| 24 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought the man in the office , Mr Rigby , said it was a new machine , ’ was Robyn 's first comment , when they stood before its massive bulk . |
| 26 | When they stood upon their privilege as peers and refused to do so , he committed them to the Tower of London . |
| 27 | NEW pupils at a dog obedience class were all shapes and sizes when they arrived for their first lesson yesterday . |
| 28 | They all managed to get off safely , but we did hear that there were one or two very heavy landings when they arrived at their destinations . |
| 29 | ‘ Here we are , ’ she said when they arrived at her close . |
| 30 | ‘ I was depressed , and when they arrived at my house and said , ‘ We 're very sorry to hear about your husband ’ , I believed they were genuine and let them in . |