Example sentences of "[vb past] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 2 | ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it . |
| 3 | Raymond Blanc has an appetite for life , as Janette Marshall found when they talked about food , home and marriage |
| 4 | The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries . |
| 5 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 6 | People were refused regular blood pressure testing because they were 65 , they could not obtain a mobility allowance following an accident which occurred when they were 65 , they were not welcomed by voluntary agencies who — one would imagine — are crying out for workers . |
| 7 | This occurred when they had their children baptised or mothers came into contact with other Christian young mums through the play group organised by the church . |
| 8 | An article which appeared in the paper contained comments by three jurors on what occurred when they retired to consider their verdict in one of the most complex trials in British legal history . |
| 9 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 10 | He said the biggest problems faced by transsexuals occurred when they decided to change their sex after marrying and having children . |
| 11 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 12 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 13 | Cos she heard my name mentioned when they was talking |
| 14 | They stopped when they reached the tramstop . |
| 15 | They stopped when they saw him , then dived right and left , but at fifty yards the rifle was lethal and Sharpe saw his bullet lift a man clean off the ground . |
| 16 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |
| 17 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 18 | They stopped when they reached Sybil , who was already in the water , and Belinda put her hands on her hips . |
| 19 | What was it the air-raid wardens shouted when they saw a house with a chink of light showing ? |
| 20 | Stephen shouted when they stepped outside onto the terrace . |
| 21 | They went into the small drawing-room they always used when they were alone in the house . |
| 22 | She imagined that they were sitting there on opposite sides of the little table they used when they were alone . |
| 23 | I refused him then but I weakened when they asked again after Chip had gone . |
| 24 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 25 | I hated rugby but I always played when they wanted me to because I was really fast . |
| 26 | Eliot once muttered when they were left alone together , which Sherek took as a sign that he was uneasy in his company — but , over the next ten years and three dramas , the partnership proved a fruitful one . |
| 27 | It was little more than Rangers deserved when they took the lead 10 minutes later when the impressive Sinton played a delightful one-two with Holloway before scoring with a rasping drive . |
| 28 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 29 | The crunch came when they moved in the police . |
| 30 | WALL 'S : The company 's great breakthrough came when they decided to buy trikes to sell their ice-cream around the streets in the 1920s . |