Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 6 | I paid £130 when I bought it second hand and would like to know if this is its true value . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | But when I missed it last year because of the Euro-Asia match I was severely criticised by the chairman . ’ |
| 10 | Mum when you took it all back when there 's a bit |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Perhaps when she made it clear he 'd got the wrong woman he 'd be sorry … |
| 14 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 15 | A surgeon , Helen Martini was specialising in paediatric surgery when she gave it all up to move with her husband to Orkney . |
| 16 | The door made a terrible creaking sound when she pushed it open . |
| 17 | And when we looked it all er all , it had gone all the way through the mattress |
| 18 | Her inimitable use of rhythm caught many a class member on the wrong foot , but how spirits lifted when we got it right , and the ultimate but awful joy was being chosen to demonstrate . |
| 19 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 20 | That when we cancelled it all down on the bottom , we were two short on the top . |
| 21 | I was quite embarrassed when we did it two years ago . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Every seat was sold out for every performance when we did it last year . ’ |
| 23 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 24 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 25 | When he made it big , in the mid-Seventies , Dury was a 35-year-old former art college lecturer in callipers . |
| 26 | He came round to find a hostile Maltese crowd around him , but when he made it clear that he was English the mood changed . |
| 27 | Houghton traced every curve and twist of the prints , comparing them beneath his microscope when he felt it necessary . |
| 28 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 29 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |
| 30 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |