Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] when they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worcester Juvenile Court has been hearing how three teenage boys wreaked havoc when they went to play on a building site . |
| 2 | Similarly shops will often only report shoplifting when they have apprehended the culprit . |
| 3 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 4 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
| 5 | However , I am equally sure that the qualifications and experience that those apprentices have gained will stand them in excellent stead in achieving employment when they come to look for jobs . |
| 6 | Does not he think it right that all such pensioners should receive compensation when they have lost so much pension due to his complacency and reprehensible laxity ? |
| 7 | ‘ Stanislaus said he knew people in the camps who experienced satisfaction when they started to waste . |