Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 2 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 3 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 4 | This simple , naive and incomprehensible blunder established Scotland 's reputation as the team most likely to screw up when it came to a big match preparation . |
| 5 | It lacked the bypass of Hebon under Pertunda , and Triglaf certainly had the edge on it when it came to a southerly location . |
| 6 | The composition of the Cabinet , when it returned to a normal size after the 1931 election , was eleven Conservatives , five Liberals and four former Labour ministers . |
| 7 | Rosie lost sight of it when it disappeared behind a cardboard box and she turned her attention back to the door . |
| 8 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 9 | Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems . |
| 10 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , he admits to editing out one joke that created some controversy when it appeared in a promotional reel earlier this year . |
| 12 | The big lift took them up higher and higher until they reached the top floor when it stopped with a little bump . |
| 13 | When it stopped in a remote area police pounced and arrested the robbers as they off-loaded the cargo . |