Example sentences of "when it [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it looked at the boys , Edwardian England was invariably moved . |
| 2 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |
| 3 | The exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg 's early work reaches the conclusion of its four-city , fifteen-month tour when it opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the middle of this month ( 14 May-2 August ) . |
| 4 | Now this when when it comes at the end of a word |
| 5 | For example , the word ‘ of ’ has the weak form in the following sentence : ‘ I 'm fond of chips ’ but when it comes at the end of the sentence , as in the following example , it has the strong form : ‘ Chips are what I 'm fond of ’ Many of the words given below ( particularly the first nine ) never occur at the end of a sentence , e.g. ‘ the ’ , ‘ your ’ . |
| 6 | Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show . |
| 7 | I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back . |
| 8 | The fuselage broke into three major sections when it separated at the wing leading edge and wing trailing edge and the wreckage came to a stop 625 feet short of the runway pavement . |
| 9 | The third mystery concerns another ghost known as ‘ Old Moll ’ who at times walks around the churchyard , the legend being connected with a horse which threw its rider when it reared at the sight of something supernatural coming down the hill at Skipsea Brough . |
| 10 | When it opened at the Haymarket Theatre Royal in 1956 Kenneth Tynan hailed it as perhaps ‘ the finest artificial comedy to have flowed from an English ( as opposed to an Irish ) pen since the death of Congreve ’ . |
| 11 | A Jockey Club inquiry into alternative starting procedures is expected to recommend changes when it reports at the end of the summer . |