Example sentences of "and when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And he sent them to Bethlehem and said , ‘ Go and search diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him , bring me word again , that I may come and worship him also . ’
2 And when ye have won the fight , and the Moors are discomfited , ye may spoil the field at pleasure .
3 But then , one may ask , why could the members of the assembly not simply undo the decisions if and when they come to regret them ?
4 Our judges treat the techniques they use for interpreting statutes and measuring precedents — even those no one challenges — not simply as tools handed down by the traditions of their ancient craft but as principles they assume can be justified in some deeper political theory , and when they come to doubt this , for what-ever reason , they construct theories that seem to them better .
5 I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months .
6 Yes , they will grow up , we will go onto this , they grow up totally normally , and when they stop growing , when do we stop growing ?
7 Good work by Martin Strutt supported by Stephen McKinty led to a scrum on the Banbridge line and when they failed to clear Michael Long made good ground down the right touch line before slipping the ball inside to full back Mark Tinman who scored at the corner after seven minutes .
8 They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room .
9 Admittedly , there were regional variations in land values , and when they began to rise again , the increase was more marked in areas round London , where the demands for food from a large urban area pushed up the value of agricultural land .
10 Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news ,
11 And when they went to pick him up some somebody picked him up by his sort of under his arms sort of thing , and he had a double hernia through that .
12 Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council
13 And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone .
14 The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned .
15 They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year .
16 I 'll hide by the bridge in the moat , and when they try to cross , I 'll kill them .
17 A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself .
18 Kalchu explained that every hunt begins like this : the dogs flush out the forest — the inaccessible chasms and the narrow hidden valleys — and when they 've found a boar , they 're trained to chase it downhill only .
19 About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan .
20 They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan .
21 and you sort of fill up the battery , and then you can draw it off , but the battery itself is n't making electricity it 's just storing cells , like the little cells in that , the cells you get in your normal little batteries , and when they 've finished making it you chuck 'em away .
22 ‘ Well , they find something to click at and when they 've clicked at it they do n't look at it any more but move on and click at something else . ’
23 And when they 've got a sell-out crowd singing along , you wonder if they might be right .
24 Pass it around and when they 've read it initial it and pass it pass on .
25 Had he followed the verderers north and when they returned had he returned in their tracks ?
26 Continuing a long and impassioned address , Mr Paisley said ‘ If the Roman Catholic Church flew the Union jack at their chapel I would have no objection , and when they wished to pull it down was their business and their property , but the City Hall was our property ’ .
27 And when they got married it was and in the paper and that 's the truth that .
28 I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down .
29 And when they 'd separated after the cash had run out , his mother had coped ; Stuart 's father had gone abroad , eventually they 'd lost touch .
30 And when they 'd finished milking at , they 'd usually start milking about half past four in the morning , some of them used to go delivering milk and then they used to go leading .
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