Example sentences of "when it [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 2 | On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too . |
| 3 | In-service training is desirable only when it fulfils a felt need . |
| 4 | Thus when it replaces an item at S ( subject ) and that item is written in a later place in the clause , an apposed clause is created . |
| 5 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 6 | A BRITISH seaside resort 's Rotary club found itself way out of its depth when it extended the hand of friendship to a visiting Russian delegation . |
| 7 | Surrey , for example , was described as ‘ not sufficiently generous ’ when it raised the income scale to allow for the rise in wages to match the cost of living . |
| 8 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 9 | Then she would find her pride and not indulge in this kind of behaviour when it had no future . |
| 10 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
| 11 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 12 | When it threatens the conduct of science and the spirit of democracy it should be curbed . |
| 13 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 14 | On few occasions has it shown less moral scruple than when it made a deal with Brezhnev to dispose of the Soviet gold . |
| 15 | The latest sell-offs are in line the promises made by TI when it took the group over last year . |
| 16 | When it meets a Tit for Two Tats player , on the other hand , Tit for Two Tats 's greater forgivingness nips this recrimination in the bud . |
| 17 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 18 | Another clue is provided by the fact that the water surface curves when it meets an object . |
| 19 | It seems that a butterfly simply automatically backs down when it meets an owner . |
| 20 | When it aids the excitation field , the entry into saturation occurs slightly earlier and the departure from saturation occurs slightly later than would be the case . |
| 21 | We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation . |
| 22 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 23 | When it reached the door the metal exploded into a shower of hot droplets . |
| 24 | The series originated from various communities and when it reached the west coast I had to provide the script for a new show every seven days for ten weeks . |
| 25 | Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man . |
| 26 | The fear got worse and when it reached the stage where five brandies were required to get me on stage , I had to stop and take stock of myself I had no desire to inflict an alcoholic parent on MY children . |
| 27 | When it reached the stage in the title year when it looked as though the scum might beat us to it , if they had have done , it would have been largely due to the difference between Whyte/Fairclough and Pallister/Bruce . |
| 28 | A crack the size of the Grand Canyon streaked up the drive , stopping only when it reached the garage doors . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 30 | Again , it is not easy to be dogmatic in answer to the question whether a court is exercising a judicial function when it entertains a reference from the Attorney-General as to what the law is on a particular point . |