Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] when they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 2 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 3 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library not just a university library , can do with its own computer , and most of our most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 4 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library — not just a university library can do with its own computer , and most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries , expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 5 | Well they wo n't know you when they see you this afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | She still did n't catch it when they told her . |
| 7 | A global model of the business delivered to who needs it when they need it where they need it . |
| 8 | We told her when they said her transplant was looking good and she would have a future after all . |
| 9 | ‘ And we told her when they said she would die . |
| 10 | I could only see him when they said I could , and they would be stood right next to me , watching me all the time . |
| 11 | Someone at the station must have told him when they checked your registration . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that it is a basic right to know how you are doing , most people are starved of feedback ( see page 63 ) and may even resent it when they get it . |
| 13 | Commuters say they 'll believe it when they see it . |
| 14 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 15 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 16 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |
| 17 | And he added : ‘ The prosecution is overstating it when they say it was sinister that he recruited young people in the area . |
| 18 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 19 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 20 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to hate it when they yanked it off , ’ said Preston . |
| 22 | I love it when they put their hand right there and you can feel their fingers in your hair and pressing into the top of the back of your neck . |
| 23 | ‘ Prove what you say , ’ said she when they threatened her . |
| 24 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 25 | Unfortunately for the Serbs , the Austrians abandoned them when they settled their differences with the Turks at the Treaty of Sistova ( 1791 ) . |
| 26 | Do you rebuke them when they do something naughty ? |
| 27 | You know they 're either set up now you 've given them an education and thrown them on the world squandering it now they 'll only squander it when they get their hands on it you might as well squander it on yourselves , let the kids squander it for you . |
| 28 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |