Example sentences of "when it [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | when it were made like the sawdust , some of that had got on our |
| 2 | When it was pointing at the far corner of the floor , it emitted a stream of high-pitched bleeps . |
| 3 | Even when it was defined as the ability to change or control the behaviour of others they felt it was inappropriate . |
| 4 | The doctrine of abstract ideas stems from a concern with what , when it was debated in the Middle Ages , was called ‘ the problem of universals ’ . |
| 5 | The doctrine of abstract ideas stems from a concern with what , when it was debated in the Middle Ages , was called ‘ the problem of universals ’ . |
| 6 | I reviewed this 1935 recording of the Slavonic Dances when it was reissued on the BBC 's Vintage Collection label ( 12/89 — nla ) . |
| 7 | Football fans and businessmen in the area showed a lively interest in the table when it was advertised in the small ads of a local newspaper at the weekend . |
| 8 | It is thought that in January the Bank sold pounds nine months forward when it was engaged in the task of restraining the pound 's advance . |
| 9 | In which hotel was Mrs Thatcher staying when it was bombed by the IRA ? |
| 10 | For example , when it was discovered in the 1970s that male workers in America and Costa Rica had been made permanently sterile by a pesticide called dibromochloropropane , the substance was banned . |
| 11 | However , the recovery plan 's future , and that of the ruling coalition government , was placed in serious doubt when it was opposed by the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , the holder of the majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 12 | ‘ I could do with a cup of tea , Lydia , ’ she smiled and when it was placed on the table before her , she wrapped both hands round it in a gesture which seemed natural , here in her mother 's kitchen . |
| 13 | The sides of the arch were destroyed in the Middle Ages when it was incorporated in the fortifications . |
| 14 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 15 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 16 | David MacLehose , director of the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland , said a fall in unemployment was always welcome , especially when it was matched with the highest increase in notified vacancies at job centres for two years . |
| 17 | After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ . |
| 18 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 19 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 20 | The Vatican and the French government both made efforts during June to bring together the Hrawi regime and the rival regime of Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , who had vehemently opposed the Taif Accord when it was accepted by the majority of Lebanese MPs in October 1989 . |
| 21 | Einstein became the success of the 1976 Avignon Festival and established Glass 's reputation in America when it was brought to the Metropolitan Opera House later that year . |
| 22 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 23 | It was built er It has to be It had to be very well built and firm , because then , when it was used for the cow for the er sheep , usually , that best hay was left for the sheep . |
| 24 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 25 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 26 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 27 | American and British reviewers gave the film a thumbs-down when it was released at the end of 1972 . |
| 28 | A Shock To The System , starring Michael Caine , won excellent reviews when it was released in the cinema . |
| 29 | The Gaelic Knight was being followed by another yacht , Tuhula , when it was swamped by the heavy seas and torrential rain . |
| 30 | It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding . |