Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , when I passed them , I saw to be sitting or kneeling beside cradles , rocking them , or singing , or gazing intently . |
| 2 | When I received them I was , to say the least , disappointed . |
| 3 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 4 | When I got them I became more worried . |
| 5 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 6 | I brought erm , a pair of , a floral pattern leggings from Marks and Spencers on Saturday , but when I got them home , they did nothing for me . |
| 7 | Oh I wonder what they 'll be like , I do n't want them as tight as those others , yeah but it 's the legs and that , those others of mine , when I got them back they were really very ti tight |
| 8 | I heard there was a West Midlands League and when I contacted them , they said if I could get a team together we could join . |
| 9 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 10 | Farmer Tom Savage , from Worcester , told Dogs Today : ‘ I could n't believe it when I saw them . |
| 11 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 12 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 13 | So , I was just leaving when I saw them , the five inch heel , crossover ankle strap , glacé kid , suedetrimmed ridiculous ! |
| 14 | ‘ But when I saw them I could n't believe how clean they were — and they 'd recovered all the pieces . |
| 15 | I nearly died when I saw them . |
| 16 | When I saw them , I mean I vaguely saw them . |
| 17 | I was unfamiliar with the equipment in the room , although I knew an operating table and anaesthetic apparatus when I saw them . |
| 18 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 19 | When I saw them , I thought I might get one every week . |
| 20 | Cos Ken said , first of all he could n't find any and he said oh he said perhaps I should 've bought them when I saw them , nine ninety nine . |
| 21 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 22 | When I met them , I did not come out with all the clichéd bullshit and all the record company going-through-the-motions kind of thing , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 24 | And yet , when I met them I thought these are not children that I have to think of as children , they 're people and they 're fascinating ! |
| 25 | Every last one of them I would imagine that were in that room when I met them er a week ago Friday I would , would probably stake my shirt on it , not that shirt , but this one |
| 26 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 27 | When I had them first I thought I 'm never going to use them you know they 're so clumsy and they 're so big and now I rather enjoy them . |
| 28 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 29 | When I pressed them to imagine the result of such an event , they replied the murderer would be so ashamed ( lidya ) that she/he would leave the region altogether never to return ; again withdrawal . |
| 30 | These I knew well were not what her whim had remembered , and when I brought them to her she said nothing , but put them aside , sadly shaking her head . |