Example sentences of "when they [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , difficult toddlers were found to have more behavioural problems when they went to primary school ; unsociable toddlers were found to have poor social skills later and had difficulty in adjusting to school ; and toddlers with good language development showed above-average ability in language at the age of six . |
| 2 | His mother — God rest her — had got more of a spark out of him when they went to nearby Ballymahon and Oliver Goldsmith 's birthplace , but that was only because he had already at school learned off by heart the whole of ‘ The Deserted Village ’ . |
| 3 | Fortunately , both those clauses enjoy the protection of unanimous voting or could be changed when they came to practical application into law . |
| 4 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 5 | Planned for release in March , following a second single in the new year , it 's already got a title , a long list of potential artists and an A to Z of possible samples ( when they signed to Blue Note , the label 's entire back catalogue came at their disposal ) . |
| 6 | ( Gene Hackman was to feature in the plays when they got to New York . ) |
| 7 | Marseille , who themselves have a tycoon owner in Bernard Tapie , will be hoping to go one better than two years ago when they lost to Red Star Belgrade on penalties . |
| 8 | In a sense , Marxists stopped being Marxist when they turned to primitive society . |