Example sentences of "when it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it saw the three figures it stopped , then , perhaps with memories of puppy-walkers , still with a broken leather couple round its neck , it approached the man whimpering softly , its tail waving . |
| 2 | Blood dripped from his sword , smoking when it touched the scorched earth . |
| 3 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 4 | When it detects a significant change in one of the parameters , it faxes a message to the nearest NRA regional control room . |
| 5 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 6 | The NUR had an unfortunate experience , apparently , a few years back when it made an unwise sponsorship . |
| 7 | It was not only the student movement that suffered in this way ; the black movement in the US , especially when it took a revolutionary form in the Black Panther Party , was violently suppressed , and in Latin America democratic and radical movements were destroyed , and military dictatorships were installed , often with American help , as in Chile . |
| 8 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 9 | A typewritten statement in Arabic delivered to a Western news agency in west Beirut said that the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ — a name previously used by Abu Nidal 's organisation when it kidnapped the Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , in southern Lebanon last year — had ‘ executed the death sentence ’ against Dr Wybran , adding that this was done to encourage the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza strip . |
| 10 | The DTI often receives criticism of these , yet little by way of praise when it nips a fraudulent trading operation firmly in the bud . |
| 11 | But the deal collapsed when it reached an advanced stage an advanced . |
| 12 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 13 | About three tonnes of gold deposited in Sweden had been handed over to the Soviet Union when it recognised the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1941 . |
| 14 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |
| 15 | It is wider of the mark , however , when it uses the possible closure of the SERC 's Nuclear Structure Facility to suggest that the government 's science funding machinery is in disarray . |
| 16 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |
| 17 | Yet Minton 's sociability was only one side of the coin : when it landed the other way up his loneliness was all too apparent . |
| 18 | Other linguists imply even more clearly that there is no difference in meaning between the two versions of the infinitive by claiming that to is meaningless when it precedes the bare infinitive form . |
| 19 | Soviet leaders were willing to support such a conception of non-alignment when it hindered the Western states . |
| 20 | Then , he had been quite amused and content to joke about being nothing more than a flower bearer , but he was not so happy when it became a regular occurrence . |
| 21 | The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence . |
| 22 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
| 23 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 24 | When it became the Combined Studies ( Creative and Performing Arts ) Board it set up its own panels , including , in November 1975 , a Movement and Dance Panel under the chairmanship of Peter Brinson . |
| 25 | The Japanese retail conglomerate Takashimiya Co Ltd may be in for a bitter disappointment when it opens a commercial art gallery in its new North American flagship design-speciality store on 23 April . |
| 26 | When it receives an acoustic signal transmitted from a range of up to 40 km , the weapon jettisons its ballast and rises to just below the sea surface . |
| 27 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 28 | Nowhere is the siren song of conservation more difficult to resist than when it combines a sentimental appeal to make a restoration project out of every down-at-heel relic , with the coded suggestion that it might even be a retail money-spinner in its own right if properly marketed by a curator and a press officer with a gift shop and a T-shirt designer on hand . |
| 29 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |
| 30 | But in the aftermath of the bid , while suggestions that TI paid too much for Dowty were still flying around the City , the group won praise and respect from many analysts when it released a detailed account of the provisions it would be making in connection with the takeover — £87.1m in all , of which £41m represents asset write-offs and £46.1m additional expenditure that TI will have to incur . |