Example sentences of "when they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't think I ever seriously considered having Low Birk Hatt connected when they offered it to me . |
| 2 | ‘ When they offered it to me , I was in turmoil because I was n't sure I had the experience the job required . |
| 3 | But until lately very few people had managed to make themselves heard when they pointed out the dramatic effect of all previous philosophers having seen it as that of a man — that is , of course , not an exact reflection of what men are like , but an image of how they tend to see themselves when they contrast themselves with women . |
| 4 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 5 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 7 | When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again . |
| 8 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 9 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 12 | When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves , they are not wise . ’ |
| 13 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 14 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 17 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 18 | When they put it to an expert they received the bewildering reply : ‘ Bird 's eye figure is formed as a result of local suppressions in divisions of cambial tissue that cause indentation to develop . |
| 19 | When they put it on TV people phoned up claiming their colour control had bust . |
| 20 | I wonder whether it was leaking in , when they put it in in the first place ? |
| 21 | I I I do n't want to go down the road to the same extent that they 've done , when they put us into debt by fifty er fifty billion o o o o o o o just on on on one day , but I 'm sure that there is a a strong case to look |
| 22 | His lack of new-technology experience had been ignored by Pilger and the others when they chose him for his production skills . |
| 23 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 24 | When they told me at work she 'd bought that , I was , cos they lived up at Green Lane I thought my God he 'd have they 've picked a a bad spot there cos there 's no flood protection at all there . |
| 25 | Put in isolation , she washed when they told her to , ate what they gave her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 29 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 30 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |