Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when they announced their engagement , love , marriage and a lifetime wedded to the monarchy meant very different things to the future King and Queen . |
| 2 | Although the workers were given written instructions as to their role when they began their work with a client , this role always expanded so that they were eventually performing several functions for the client . |
| 3 | In addition , the relevant committees , when they began their work , would be obliged to operate not with fairly loose guidelines and a relaxed timetable but with specific ceilings and a tight schedule . |
| 4 | They even tried next door , but when they discovered our neighbours do n't use cocopeat , they came straight back again ! |
| 5 | Trafalgar moved out of the press again when they sold their titles to United Newspapers in 1985 . |
| 6 | Women 's faces sometimes went white when they heard his name . |
| 7 | ‘ When they heard our bulls bellow the Skroelings ran away ! ' |
| 8 | ‘ When they heard our story they said they would get us out of Romania . |
| 9 | The men , who covered 1,350 miles unaided and set two world records , were said to be ‘ more dead than alive ’ when they radioed their base camp to request an airlift . |
| 10 | I wept when they lowered her coffin into the ground . |
| 11 | As they entered the little general store , Fen produced a long list of necessities , and when they left their arms were piled high with brown paper bags . |
| 12 | It was for this reason that many of them carefully locked their front doors when they left their homes . |
| 13 | When they left their stalls at the end of Lauds , and approached the night stairs to return to their beds , a slight , habited figure arose from its knees to confront them , stepping into what light there was very gingerly , but with resigned resolution , like one expecting a bleak welcome , but braced to endure and survive it . |
| 14 | Once , at school , the girls had amused themselves by putting together the perfect woman , and Jane had been surprised when they chose her eyes , which were large and brown . |
| 15 | It was they whom the justices at Speenhamland had in mind in a year of extreme hunger when they produced their system of allowances in aid of wages determined by the ruling price of bread and by family size . |
| 16 | I would add that toy manufacturers used a good deal of imagination and licence when they produced their models , perhaps not taking into account the keen eye and future criticism of FlyPast readers ! |
| 17 | An approach to simplifying this task was first made by Boenninghausen and later by Kent when they produced their repertories , or collections of symptoms and signs common to each remedy . |
| 18 | ‘ Our Leader does n't like to be told that his election was a fraud , that actual grievous bodily harm was perpetrated to bring him victory , that people were n't telling the truth when they said they wanted him , only him , when they said their hearts beat as one with love of him . |
| 19 | We told her when they said her transplant was looking good and she would have a future after all . |
| 20 | He guessed that when they made their report , probably by radio to a close in-surface unit , the MOD would finish the job and order the destruction of the Titron . |
| 21 | If an asylum claim that is not justified under the United Nations convention is to be the means of obtaining settlement in the United Kingdom , we need at the very least to explain , particularly to the minority communities legitimately settled here , why their friends and relatives who would like to come and join them are not allowed to do so because they told the truth when they made their applications , whereas others who are prepared to make an unfounded asylum claim can remain indefinitely . |
| 22 | When they acquired their homes , they persuaded the council to section off some land at the back , and that became their secret garden . |
| 23 | Of course you could once , when they knew their place ( ’ The poor will long remember / The kind repast they did enjoy / On the 24th of September ’ ) . |
| 24 | Even ‘ when they knew their cause was lost … they reached out again , in the Thirties and Forties , and sought to achieve new and only imagined forms of social control ’ ( Thompson , 1968 edn . ) . |
| 25 | People were drawn to him almost against their will , even when they knew his faults . |
| 26 | It would have been time to win them with clemency later , when they knew his power and will to dominate , and could be stunned into love by the unexpected mercy . |
| 27 | But those with binoculars must have been worried when they saw their horse throw its jockey before the race had started … |
| 28 | If they sent haematologists around local firms and offices then men would be honour bound to take the blood test when they saw their colleagues taking it . |
| 29 | That in itself would win the support of a substantial group of Vietnamese fence sitters , and would unite all Vietnamese in solid opposition to Ho Chi Minh ; and the Chinese communists , practical people , when they saw their aid resulting in no real accomplishment , would be less ready to see it frittered away . |
| 30 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |