Example sentences of "when they [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 2 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 3 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 4 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 5 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 6 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 7 | The Quaker mother , who was so astonished by the ignorance of the police when they questioned her about the way she and her family worshipped , said her faith remained strong . |
| 8 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 9 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 10 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 11 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 12 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 13 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 14 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , when they stop me in the street , at least half of them call me Mr Darcy . |
| 16 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 17 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 18 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 19 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 20 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 21 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 22 | As when they wheeled you through the swinging door . |
| 23 | ‘ They , at least , confined themselves to giggling like village idiots when they watched him from the tower . |
| 24 | And then they 're gon na have an eleventh one when they , when they do it with the form tutor . |
| 25 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 26 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 27 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen . |
| 29 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 30 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |