Example sentences of "[coord] when it [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hedgehog tries to climb up the net and when it hears you approach it promptly rolls up into a ball . |
| 2 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 3 | And when it does we make it explicit that this is a matter of choice and consent . |
| 4 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
| 5 | The small , soft sound took a while to register , and when it did she looked up , startled . |
| 6 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 7 | In the egg with the sun was a goose , and when it emerged it flew honking away : the first sound of this world . |
| 8 | The intimacy with which she and Luke explored each other 's mouths was possession of a kind , so wholly were they given to that long kiss , and when it ended they had to have it all over again , instantly , mouths colliding with an urgency which carried them dangerously beyond mere sensuality . |
| 9 | and when it arrived it turned out to be a donation from the Lord Mayor 's charity . |
| 10 | What actually does happen , in most cases , is that either you do not lose the weight in the first place , or , if you do , it is on a difficult diet and when it finishes you get fat once again . |
| 11 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 12 | ‘ The chance of a lifetime ’ did n't arrive at the most convenient moment for Helen Dobson ( seven months into a new job ) but when it came she grabbed it , in spite of the fact that it has left her biting her nails about future career prospects . |
| 13 | ‘ But when it went I thought I needed an operation . |
| 14 | We thought it was interference but when it continued we mapped the entire area . ’ |
| 15 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 16 | But when it stopped he lunged at her face with a jagged edged knife . |
| 17 | But when it stopped he lunged at Janice 's head with the jagged-edged weapon before running off . |