Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why does everybody tell me I ought to watch my drinking when they 're all so busy watching it for me ? |
| 2 | And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know . |
| 3 | They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient . |
| 4 | I would really like to celebrate the Communion service with the people in my parish when they ask for it . |
| 5 | Shivers went down by my spine when they sang , ‘ Come on Home ’ and again when Jimmy Somerville sang , ‘ For a Friend ’ . |
| 6 | They 're going to be the godparents of my twins when they arrive soon . |
| 7 | I 've bin dealin' wiv Johnson 's fer years now , an' so was me parents when they 'ad the shop . ’ |
| 8 | I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is great for players and their clubs when they are picked for their country . |
| 10 | He had been able to teach her some of the ploys that actors use to control their breathing when they are nervous , and project their voices so they can be heard . |
| 11 | It is the emblem of an all-male club which raises money for charity by fining members 10p if they are n't carrying their shell when they hear the Freudian rallying cry ‘ Winkle Up . ’ |
| 12 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 13 | You must also have some knowledge about exactly where people lose their money when they visit the five places listed above . |
| 14 | You might be their money when they 're all at work . |
| 15 | Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep when they are mine |
| 16 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
| 17 | Her attraction had only grown ; he found himself trying to smell her hair when they sat together in pubs , he gazed out of the comer of his eye at her breasts under whatever jumper or T-shirt she was wearing , wanting to touch them . |
| 18 | They 'd been good to Mam , though , sending her money when they could . |
| 19 | Before the Second World War the pattern was somewhat different since women were , typically , sacked by their employers when they married . |
| 20 | CIVIL servants are to hand a 3500-signature petition to their employers when they stage an anti-privatisation protest at the Scottish Office tomorrow . |
| 21 | Determined , independent women often show their weakness when they fall in love , and Bathsheba had very little experience of the world , or of men . |
| 22 | They were philhellenes , fined young people who were too fat , and did not abandon their houses when they were invaded by water ( Strabo 4.4.6 , 7.2.1 ) . |
| 23 | The Indian hierarchy could hardly believe their luck when they heard details of the party to tour the sub-continent this winter . |
| 24 | We may speculate that GPs may become less willing to maintain the very elderly on their lists when they have to provide care within a specified cash-limited budget . |
| 25 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 26 | Ironically , women will often cross their legs when they 're trying to look relaxed or elegant or assured . |
| 27 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 28 | The Government are providing substantial help to those who risk losing their homes when they lose their jobs . |
| 29 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 30 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |