Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 2 | Other women at the city council office where he worked hid when he chased them with a syringe filled with water , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | Some people do n't stop when she asks them for money , but most people think for a bit and then dig in their pockets and give her summat . |
| 4 | I mean , no , I 'm not kidding when you drag them from where I am , down to the scales that 's fucking hard work mate ! |
| 5 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 6 | If only she could understand the excruciating pain her boys are suffering when she treats them like this , and realise that they will carry that pain for the rest of their lives . |
| 7 | doubt when he gives them to thingy me bob |
| 8 | Their pay was , however , increased when he loaned them to Madame Rasimi to work in Lyons and Bordeaux , and they were proud to be able to send almost ten shillings weekly to their mothers . |
| 9 | She was carrying a fresh tray of ice ; the cubes popped when she put them in the drinks . |
| 10 | But as Chomsky himself remarked when he abandoned them with some reluctance as theoretical constructs , these kernel sentences actually have considerable intuitive appeal . |
| 11 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 12 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |