Example sentences of "when they give " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 2 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 3 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ They knew I had insurance because I took it out with the TSB when they gave me the loan . ’ |
| 5 | PROFESSIONAL footballers talked about their personal goals when they gave a talk on physical fitness to an Essex joggers ' club . |
| 6 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 7 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 8 | When they gave their replies there was a powerful feeling in the room . |
| 9 | A consortium of English and European dealers , led by S.J.Phillips of Bond St , bid a world record price for a snuff box when they gave SF2,530,000 ( £1,155,2507 ) for one of the twenty-six surviving hardstone and jewelled boxes made for Frederick the Great . |
| 10 | I have a card someplace and all their signatures are on it , when they gave me my dinner service [ a wedding present ] . |
| 11 | Primal Scream 's petty pilfering of dance rhythms turned into wholesale hijacking when they gave club deejay Andy Weatherall a cast-off riff to play with and he returned with the seductive bump and grind of ‘ Loaded ’ . |
| 12 | When they gave you them to shell and you sat |
| 13 | We tr I travelled to school on the railway one bit , when they gave us season tickets , because with a scholarship you got your fares paid . |
| 14 | The men times the hours when whenever you whenever you get your answer , you can check that your men times the hours must still still be the same as it was when you when they gave you the question . |
| 15 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 16 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 17 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 18 | They pick a year in the future when they know that there will have been a general election and that they will probably not be in the same job as when they gave the commitment . |
| 19 | For generations to come , nevertheless , most collections of this kind remained very patchy and incomplete , largely because ministers and diplomats tended to look on their papers as their personal property and to retain them when they gave up office . |
| 20 | When they gave him the MBE ( some said it should have been the Croix de Guerre ) for services to the Party , the club committee charged 10p a pint all day . |
| 21 | Yeah when they gave out |
| 22 | Another option would be for her to negotiate some ‘ good quality ’ time for them to spend together , when they give each other the best of their attention . |
| 23 | I have seen people deteriorate quickly when they give up a routine , believing that this is the right thing to do . |
| 24 | Magistrates also fail when they give bail to dangerous men who are likely to reoffend . |
| 25 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 26 | When they give you it , they have to watch you swallow it , but I used to keep it in the back of my throat and save it up . |
| 27 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 28 | To prevent this , local authorities can make replanting obligatory when they give permission for trees to be felled . |
| 29 | THERE are few guarantees in politics but it is a more than reasonable bet that John Major and Bill Clinton will both be smiling and behaving as if they are buddies when they give a press conference at the White House tomorrow afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ An issue that is consistently swept under the carpet is the power adults can have over children when they give their stories of what has happened to them , ’ said Prof Turner . |