Example sentences of "when they [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone notices the Chancellor 's announcement of a tax cut that is a perception ; when they approve or disapprove , that is an attitude . |
| 2 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 3 | Well they just sort of drop off when they die and then grow some new ones but they do n't drop them all off like all some of the other trees do in the Autumn . |
| 4 | Lord Byron noted the treatment of recalcitrant women in 19th Century Penzance ; ‘ The women ( blessed be the Corporation therefore ! ) are flogged at the Cart 's tail when they pick and steal , as happened to one of the fair sex yesterday noon . |
| 5 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 6 | Fletcher said : ‘ It looks like two different pitches — one when they bowl and another when we bowl on it . ’ |
| 7 | They even bought sweets for the children when they left and we have 260 pupils here , ’ said school secretary Helen Chilvers . |
| 8 | Hereford must have thought they 'd cracked it as well when they went and took the lead against Torquay United … |
| 9 | Another thing : not enough men would be in the middle waiting for crosses when they came and like I said before the crosses were mostly aiming for heads — or for Deano 's head . |
| 10 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |
| 11 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
| 12 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 13 | Only when they dropped or rattled something , the startled way they would look towards Moran , did the nervous tension of what it took to glide about so silently show . |
| 14 | Then , when they try and step back they find that their leg is caught . |
| 15 | When they load or unload a ship they can understand what 's wanted . ’ |
| 16 | The proposed investors in the management buy-out could be liable with the buy-out team if they acquire and misuse confidential information , when they knew or ought reasonably to have known that it was obtained in breach of the director 's duties . |
| 17 | So I do n't know when they 've , when they go but erm they 've won that , it 's obviously through one of their |
| 18 | When the whistle is blown again , the leader gives instructions such as ‘ hop ’ , ‘ walk backwards ’ , ‘ jump with two feet together ’ , ‘ run slowly ’ or ‘ walk again' until the leader eventually says ‘ Bus stop ’ when all the children must continue the way they are going until they reach the entrance to the bus when they go and sit down . |
| 19 | I think in essence I mean many of our students are doing nothing different to what students at other universities do when they go and have a private party in their lodgings . |
| 20 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 21 | Pat 's job had already brought her into contact with the problems people face when they retire and feel that just because they 've stopped working , they 've dropped out of society . |
| 22 | So it 's , it was n't a new thing when they brought but nevertheless erm that went on and on and on then and er cos the staff really went down , the requirements for staff went down and erm I , I think erm , they got it down when I left there to round about a hundred and forty six staff was , was all that was required . |
| 23 | He wrote that it was ‘ not cruel to animals but , rather , indulgent to men … since it absolves them of the suspicion of crime when they eat or kill animals ’ . |
| 24 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 25 | Similarly there is only a fog , when it comes to crimes committed by governments ( Douglas and Johnson 1977 ) , particularly when these victimize Third World countries ( Shawcross 1979 ) or become genocidal ( Brown 1971 , Horowitz 1977 ) , or by governmental control agencies such as the police when they assault or use deadly force unwarrantedly against the public or suspected persons ( see Chapter 3 ) , or prison officers ( Coggan and Walker 1982 ; Thomas and Pooley 1980 ) , or special prison hospital staff when they brutalize and torture persons in their protective custody . |
| 26 | ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’ |
| 27 | The only time my Oscars show a behavioural change is when they are separated from the shark , when they sulk and retreat unto the plec 's cave . |
| 28 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 29 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 30 | They were hanging around town when they met and now they see each other about five times a week . |