Example sentences of "when they [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are most malicious when they prey on liars , murderers and thieves , for they hate to see injustice . |
| 2 | Fairies often bestow them as gifts upon favoured mortals for , when they mate with mortal stock , the offspring will enjoy superior stamina and strength . |
| 3 | Perhaps for this reason Judaism and Islam , particularly when they refer to the creative power of the god whom they follow , suggest that their deity is in fact the only god who exists and not simply the only god who is to be worshipped : |
| 4 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 5 | Hillman and Whalley indeed make this point when they refer to central area pedestrian precincts as |
| 6 | When they refer to other people , whether they are good or bad people is generally discussed in terms of their spirituality . |
| 7 | It is this range of performances rather than any coherent body of theology which most social anthropologists have in mind when they refer to the magico-religious system . |
| 8 | Conservatives have long held the view that there is too much emphasis on individual rights and not enough on duties , especially when they rail against the self-interested , Westernized attitudes of modern Japanese youth . |
| 9 | Many people spend an awful lot of time editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to re-configure memory managers and so forth when they switch between applications . |
| 10 | Celtic are next to test the growing confidence at Dens Park when they visit for a rearranged fixture tomorrow . |
| 11 | It will be appreciated that it is necessary to make payment for meals to the person who delivers when they ask for payment . |
| 12 | I would really like to celebrate the Communion service with the people in my parish when they ask for it . |
| 13 | And remember , when they ask about Billie , say she was edgy , always nervous . |
| 14 | Somebody else can fiddle around with the figures when they tender for it , but you 're trying to get a true cost of doing the work . |
| 15 | And when they stay in hotels they use call boxes in the foyer — to call mummy presumably — rather than the more expensive phones in their rooms . |
| 16 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 17 | Teaching them how to deal with people , even when they break for crisps and fruit juice . |
| 18 | Joints and fissures are probably enlarged partly by the abrasive effect of stones scoured into them by the waves and partly by the pressures generated by the waves when they break against the cliffs . |
| 19 | When they contribute towards sexual enjoyment by way of enhancing the pleasure of sexuality in general , they may still scarcely be thought of as deviant . |
| 20 | Unfortunately many modern anthropologists are very vague as to which of these different objections they are making when they object to ‘ evolutionism ’ in general . |
| 21 | If I am lucky , and the weather is compatible with fish-spotting , I should see signs of the carp when they push through weedbeds and hump through the surface , or mudclouds and bubbles when they root in the bottom . |
| 22 | They ca n't tell what bit of an object is nearest to them , so they 're very clumsy when they reach towards things . |
| 23 | When they shout at you ! |
| 24 | When they shout at you . |
| 25 | I think the interest that people have in those areas show that there is that hunger for a deep personal kind of faith , which they do n't usually find when they worship in the churches . |
| 26 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 27 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 28 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 29 | They make me laugh , when they sit in 'ouse with blanket round them , so they do n't have to turn 'eating up . |
| 30 | Within the next 18 months to two years , this will change as the first wave of line cards are installed that support ISDN directly , with the result that residential customers should get a more enthusiastic response when they enquire about the technology . |