Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , heaven knows what will happen to me when I 've , when I got it any more , I use it all the time . |
| 2 | I was even more impressed with the jacket 's performance when I wore it next to my skin — it has an antibacterial finish to the fleece which makes it suitable for this purpose . |
| 3 | ‘ When I remember it first it was a playroom for the Glynn children and any others they cared to let in ; a sort of clubhouse . |
| 4 | The Club Class lounge ( not quite ready when I viewed it last month ) will offer seclusion and extra comfort for £6 — £8 : a good way to escape school parties . |
| 5 | The place is in the same gleaming order as when I left it last , the only sign of Lee 's presence being the neatly made camp-bed and a regimented row of balled socks beside his kit-bag in the dining room . |
| 6 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 7 | I paid £130 when I bought it second hand and would like to know if this is its true value . |
| 8 | ‘ Only when I feel it necessary . ’ |
| 9 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 10 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 11 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 12 | But when I missed it last year because of the Euro-Asia match I was severely criticised by the chairman . ’ |
| 13 | Call me when you get it all straight in your head , my sweet . ’ |
| 14 | However , these blades do increase the damage which can be done to the model when you get it wrong . |
| 15 | Mum when you took it all back when there 's a bit |
| 16 | I put twelve hundred quid 's worth down because when you tot it all up |
| 17 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 18 | Water will not drain from the fabric or the tube when you lift it clear of the surface . |
| 19 | but if you do n't tell them that on the phone when you come it this is what I want |
| 20 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |
| 21 | Because the price of a single was almost the same as the price of the return but to get a refund you have to pay an administration charge which when you add it all up comes to me owing them four pounds . |
| 22 | When you did it this way you go straight across , straight across , strai , but yo your second jumps you were doing you were going there like that instead of going straight across . |
| 23 | Do n't forget you can look at this , Y equals X plus one times X minus one , which , when you see it that way tells you where it 's going to , where its roots are . |
| 24 | Incidentally I I think when you when you net it all out that that forty pounds er is partly offset because I think we got er twenty five pounds from the Spastics or something . |
| 25 | Oh yeah , but I mean it just goes on when you need it all new . |
| 26 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 27 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 28 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 29 | Perhaps when she made it clear he 'd got the wrong woman he 'd be sorry … |
| 30 | When she pushes it open , and switches on the light , she finds the breeze blowing through broken windows . |