Example sentences of "their [noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is great for players and their clubs when they are picked for their country . |
| 3 | Before the Second World War the pattern was somewhat different since women were , typically , sacked by their employers when they married . |
| 4 | CIVIL servants are to hand a 3500-signature petition to their employers when they stage an anti-privatisation protest at the Scottish Office tomorrow . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ironically , women will often cross their legs when they 're trying to look relaxed or elegant or assured . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Government are providing substantial help to those who risk losing their homes when they lose their jobs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story . |
| 13 | Disbelieving parents shook their heads when they arrived at Overdale County Primary School in Northwood , Kirkby . |
| 14 | Disbelieving parents shook their heads when they arrived at Overdale County Primary School in Northwood , Kirkby . |
| 15 | Most new users find the Windows software , which has friendly picture-book instructions rather than arcane codes , already loaded on their computers when they buy them . |
| 16 | People could hardly believe their eyes when they opened their newspapers yesterday morning : alongside the ritual party propaganda there was genuine criticism and complaints . |
| 17 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 18 | ‘ But I watch their eyes when they speak , and I see what they intend . |
| 19 | Everyone had gone except this boorish man and his sleazy dirty place , and the poor old decrepit cleaner , who did n't seem particularly dismayed at the sight that greeted their eyes when they went into the room where the reception had been held . |
| 20 | People living on the estate could n't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour . |
| 21 | BEMUSED rail commuters could hardly believe their eyes when they stepped off trains at a rainswept Merseyside station yesterday . |
| 22 | ‘ You can see it in their eyes when they 're talking to you . |
| 23 | MALCOLM and Judy Carvell could n't believe their eyes when they visited their old village after five years in Australia . |
| 24 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 25 | People are sensitive to acoustic patterns impinging on their ears when someone speaks . |
| 26 | Many lizards , such as the green lizard ( above ) and the blue-tailed skink ( below ) , are capable of breaking off their tails when they are molested . |
| 27 | Seals can close their earholes when they are underwater , and the earholes of whales have shrunk to a minute size . |
| 28 | And even today , what messages are we transmitting to children and their peers when we exclude them from participation in some school activities ? |
| 29 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 30 | Nobody in court can see them , but everyone hears their voices when they come to testify . |