Example sentences of "of [noun] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do . |
| 2 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 3 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 4 | In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky . |
| 5 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 6 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 7 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 8 | Of course when they did reappear the predictable line ‘ And on the seventh day he rested ’ was much used . |
| 9 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 10 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 11 | and erm , then of course when they reached Felixstowe , everything was a bit chaotic because th they had to sleep on the floor in the schools down there |
| 12 | She did , I 'd never forget it as long as I live , I thought to myself well you stupid cow , all she could think of was a fifty pence key , so I , I said to them , I said to the girls I 'm glad to be out but of course when they all went cos there was Lynda and all the girls from customer service that were kicked out and all of us that were there and they all said oh we 've got ta go back to work and we said oh ai n't that a shame you know , and we all went |
| 13 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 14 | Um now of course when they 're talking about things like physiological responses , when they 're talking about things like having orgasms and the like , erm this is on the part of the victims , it 's not too difficult to detach these physiological responses from pleasure . |
| 15 | People hold speculative balances of money when they anticipate that interest rates will rise ( security prices will fall ) . |
| 16 | MILBURNGATE COUNTY LEAGUE KIMBLESWORTH are looking to complete a hat trick of wins when they take on Leadgate today . |
| 17 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 18 | Are they at any form of disadvantage when they come to university studying a science subject such as chemistry ? |
| 19 | 2.6 At common law the relatives had no cause of action when they suffered loss in consequence of a tortiously inflicted death . |
| 20 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 21 | Nuclear Electric paid their staff a bonus of £1600 when they declared their annual results . |
| 22 | Welcome back : Still to come on Central South … the problems encountered by a group of abseilers when they tackled a six hundred foot power station chimney . |
| 23 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 24 | ‘ I wonder ’ , she said , ‘ whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence ? ’ |
| 25 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 26 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | It 's then that we can start enjoying our aloneness and cope better with any feelings of isolation when they occur , as the following description shows : |
| 29 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 30 | Some shaikhs saw no conflict of roles when they were themselves involved in disputes with members of their lineage , and used every means at their disposal to win an argument about , say , rights to land . |