Example sentences of "when they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deployment of particular arguments both in response to their opponents and when they went beyond those limits , revealed a family resemblance in fundamental ideas . |
| 2 | In the nineteen twenties water workers were laying a pipe when they came across this skeleton . |
| 3 | The pitiable Mr Pygling , who jerked through the little town with a stick — it turned out he had Parkinson 's disease — doffed his check cap to Jane and even held the door open for her when they ran into each other at a shop until she opened the house to the public ( having restored it sufficiently ) on Sundays . |
| 4 | It was revived four years later when they ran into each other again in the unromantic setting of a Greenwich Village laundromat . |
| 5 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 6 | In another incident they injured five Germans when they shot at another bus in the town of Qena . |
| 7 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 8 | Lionel Luyt told me that John quickly tagged on to him when they met during those Johannesburg seasons , and was eager for discussions which went on , after performances , into the small hours . |
| 9 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 10 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 11 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |