Example sentences of "when they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 2 | When they also indicated that they would prefer to have one central point of communication for their dealings with the Nationalist camp , it was clear that the question of leadership must be resolved at once . |
| 3 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 4 | Either way they risk being swept aside in turn when he succeeds , when they also seem stupid . |
| 5 | Other signs of possible trouble are when Koi ‘ flick ’ or ‘ flash ’ against objects in the pond exposing their lighter underparts with a characteristic glint ; or when they repeatedly leap clear of the water . |
| 6 | People in church do not usually sing when they either dislike or do not know a piece . |
| 7 | It 's the fact that the two outsiders in society only prove themselves when they either save the innocent or find the innocent . |
| 8 | New powers to lock up children overnight may reflect the concern of Home Office ministers about crimes committed by some young people in care when they persistently abscond from children 's homes . |
| 9 | When they finally said goodnight outside the hotel it was with a vague arrangement to meet again some time . |
| 10 | It was very late when they finally had the meal that Felipe had ordered , and they were still in each other 's arms , talking and planning , when dawn began to break . |
| 11 | Worrying what they might think when they finally looked back . |
| 12 | ‘ And I thought he was the one who killed her , too , ’ said William , ‘ when they finally told me . ’ |
| 13 | When they finally took them , they inclined their heads with a dignified gratitude . |
| 14 | When they finally reached the top floor , the penthouse office was deserted . |
| 15 | They perked up a bit when they finally reached the car park before the North Ameshet Holiday Inn though . |
| 16 | Even so , Virginia was glad when they finally reached the baths and found there was a choice of communal outdoor pools or private indoor ones . |
| 17 | But when they finally met , Shug greeted her in an enigmatic tone , ‘ You sure is ugly ’ . |
| 18 | Other angry motorists blew their horns and flashed rude two-finger salutes when they finally managed to overtake him . |
| 19 | DINAMO Tbilisi 's appeal against their European Cup disqualification will be heard on Thursday — when they finally get around to making one . |
| 20 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 21 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 22 | They are n't deliberately mad , they must be as shocked in a way as everyone else when they finally do something terrible . |
| 23 | When they finally arrived at the cathedral , the world held its collective breath and Diana , with her father leaning heavily on her arm , walked with painful slowness down the aisle . |
| 24 | When they finally moved out their successors found the floor covered with six layers of linoleum — the bottom ones must have been in position for many a long year ! |
| 25 | Originally a Norse term for GOBLINS who attacked sleepers , robbing them of their faculties so when they finally awoke they were bereft of speech . |
| 26 | When they finally stood in front of him , they realized why he had not answered . |
| 27 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 28 | And that was the day after ( heart going bang-the-big-bass-drum 'cos I knew what they 'd say ) I tried to get a word in edgeways when they finally fixed my GCSE options . |
| 29 | His mounting literary reputation was by then sustained by poems as well as criticism , though he had abandoned the writing of poems before the war : ‘ It struck me they were bad , ’ he told an interviewer years later , ‘ I did n't want to print them ’ ; so that though his Collected Poems ( 1955 ) were a minor intellectual sensation when they finally appeared , they belong to another time . |
| 30 | When they finally appeared the new Statutes were a reasoned compromise , but nevertheless they contained some fundamental changes . |