Example sentences of "when they [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this range of performances rather than any coherent body of theology which most social anthropologists have in mind when they refer to the magico-religious system . |
| 2 | Perhaps for this reason Judaism and Islam , particularly when they refer to the creative power of the god whom they follow , suggest that their deity is in fact the only god who exists and not simply the only god who is to be worshipped : |
| 3 | Conservatives have long held the view that there is too much emphasis on individual rights and not enough on duties , especially when they rail against the self-interested , Westernized attitudes of modern Japanese youth . |
| 4 | Celtic are next to test the growing confidence at Dens Park when they visit for a rearranged fixture tomorrow . |
| 5 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 6 | She first visited in March last year with her mother thanks to the villagers who started an appeal when they heard about the serious burns Elena suffered in a domestic accident . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Derelict , he had thought when they drove through the main street . |
| 9 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 10 | Shirley gave Jenna the sort of suspicious look she gave her children when they sniffed with an approaching cold . |
| 11 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 12 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 13 | When they went into the crowded dining-room for dinner two people sprang up and came straight towards them . |
| 14 | When they went into the big bedroom , Patrick was seated in an armchair facing the door , dressed in his blue serge suit waiting for Rosie . |
| 15 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 16 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 17 | If American think-tankers would find Germany odd , they would be floored by Japan — but would cock an interested eyebrow when they went to the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 19 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 20 | Mrs Edna Wall remembers Mrs Bessie Forde and Mrs Cooper as leaders marching the band of 90 or so little ones in the early 1930s to outdoor meetings in different parts of the town and always , when they came to a public house , they stopped and sang : ‘ Dare to be a Daniel — ’ with a special emphasis on the words : ‘ Keep outside the public house and bring your money home . ’ |
| 21 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 22 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 23 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 24 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 25 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 26 | In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky . |
| 27 | The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house . |
| 28 | When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it . |
| 29 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 30 | A much quoted observation by one grand old man of German science policy , Professor Heinz Maier Leibnitz , points out that German researchers who have done well in stints in the US tend to stagnate when they return to the German system . |