Example sentences of "when they [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | She broke off abruptly , as they always did when they felt themselves nearing the forbidden topic . |
2 | What bad luck — they spend six days in the mountains hunting for Trolls and when they return they find the Imperial army camped outside the walls of Hauptmansburg and all able-bodied men called to serve . |
3 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
4 | They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers , when they saw them approaching the area . |
5 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
6 | Consider the two processes unc and unc Both processes have exactly the same communicating behaviour ( they input along channel d ) , and when they terminate they have the same effect on their free variable x . |
7 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
8 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
9 | Coming to a particular spot , she said ‘ Dig theear ’ , and when they did they found the stump of the old one . |
10 | Our unwound watches lay in our rucksacks and when they stopped we followed the pattern of night and day instead . |