Example sentences of "[noun] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He had kept lurchers when they were children , and used to take Francis lamping for rabbits . |
| 3 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 4 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 5 | His lips were still purse on the last words when they suddenly sprang wide as he saw her almost stagger back from him , her hand to her throat , the colour draining from her face . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | Kleiman found that shadowing produced only moderate interference with judgements about the meanings of individual words when they were presented in pairs , whereas rhyming judgements were impaired . |
| 8 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 9 | Also , various frames need to be used in order to find out if anything changes in the words when they are checked against frames with other words or pitch . |
| 10 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 11 | Troilus and Cressida say all the right words when they are informed of the Trojan plan to retrieve Antenor , but the fact that they say so much , and use such perfectly formed phrases , invalidates the underlying emotions . |
| 12 | I 'd like the words when they 're crytalised … since thefirst thing my daughter ( now 19months ) learned to do was the arm movements to ‘ ooh aah Cantona ’ , I suppose I should teach her something new … perhaps I 'll modify the last phrase though ; - ) |
| 13 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 14 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 15 | Like actors remembered as great for just turning up , the moths are recalled as gigantic , vivid images when they were probably just spectral smudges . |
| 16 | In a series of tests it was discovered that large predatory fish from the Pacific avoided sea snakes when they were offered as food , but that fish from the Atlantic lacked this caution and attacked them . |
| 17 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 18 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 19 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 20 | Dr Chris Wells , director of one of Europe 's largest pain clinics at Liverpool 's Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery , says many people lie down in the dark and withdraw from circulation when they have a bad headache . |
| 21 | Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A spokesman said 1,500 police and commandos would escort the fans when they arrived in Poland . |
| 24 | Full details of this scheme will be given to fans when they book their places for the trip . |
| 25 | ‘ Kristian is very good with fans when they see him the street and ask him for autographs . |
| 26 | THE Shamen were booed and jeered by football fans when they performed at half-time at Arsenal 's home game against Manchester City on Monday night . |
| 27 | They have no partner with whom to face middle or old age , or who will provide stability and companionship when they need it . |
| 28 | The men all denied charges of conspiracy to riot and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm when they went on trial in October last year . |
| 29 | Their intention when they opened Sutherland House was to create a homely , clean and warm environment . |
| 30 | When Operation Gentle Shepherd swung into action for the second time , five of the six sperm whales were coaxed by 14 rescue vessels between the islands of Swona and South Ronaldsay and were heading for the Pentland Firth when they dived beneath the waves . |