Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 2 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 4 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 5 | When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick . |
| 6 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |
| 7 | In general , to this visiting UK pilot , New Zealand landing and parking charges seemed to be negligible , on those occasions when they bothered to levy them at all . |
| 8 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 9 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |