Example sentences of "when they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wolfwood was as dark and as secretive as it had been when they journeyed through to the Forest Court with Nuadu , but here and there , deep within the Trees , Floy caught the darting movement of green and gold ; the rustling of silver-tipped leaves that looked , for a moment , like the trailing hair of a creature almost Human … |
| 2 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 3 | Because respectable England , being what it was , did not want to be waited upon by gangling adolescents with spots , nor to have itself paged by unmodulated voices that were just breaking , and youths in such positions invariably got the push when they grew out of the uniform , or lost their boyish looks . |
| 4 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 5 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 6 | And then when they went over to the other side of the road which I do n't walk on very often |
| 7 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 8 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 9 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
| 10 | She tells me that Jack was a real piss-head , and was always having to borrow money off her husband when they went out on the town . |
| 11 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 12 | Like when they went out in the garden and they put |
| 13 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 14 | When they came round in the valley , they were entertained with every delightful variant of wine , women and song promised in the holy scriptures to those who would go to Paradise . |
| 15 | MEMBERS of Southport Branch 's Service Circle each won 50 Ovations when they came up with the idea to give printed appointment cards to customers . |
| 16 | If the roads were clear when they came out of the meeting they would travel back that night . |
| 17 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 18 | She smoked more than she had done before too lighting a cigarette with real hunger when they came out into the sunlight . |
| 19 | There was n't such a warm welcome though , when they came out onto the pitch a shortwhile ago . |
| 20 | They stood on their ends in the inward sloping shelves for a fortnight or so when they came in during the spring or early summer . |
| 21 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |
| 22 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 23 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 24 | There has got to be something to stop the skiers losing their way when they fall out of the pub . ’ |
| 25 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 26 | These days I forget what I prescribe and what people have got when they walk out of the surgery . |
| 27 | Fortunately the pair were off to different events when they stepped out in the identical £420 jackets . |
| 28 | But the wards are staffed twenty four hours a day , nursing staff are always about , we have dedicated security staff who can be called at a minute 's notice , and staff are obviously aware on kid 's wards how sensitive security is , and will be challenging people when they come on to the wards . |
| 29 | There are still drawings for which export licences have not yet been applied but will no doubt be stopped when they come up before the reviewing committee . |
| 30 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |