Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost under the mare 's hoofs when it saw fit to leap into the air and then dart away at speed . |
| 2 | The Government also ignored the Confederation 's plea to use its finances to support YT when it saw fit . |
| 3 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 4 | This was an old carriage , but still well capable of performing the task set for it when it had first joined the rolling-stock in the year that Holly had been born . |
| 5 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 6 | Just as the Singing Detective caused outrage when it featured similar amorous action shot in a shady area , director Ken Russell makes his current coupling couple keep their clothes hanging on . |
| 7 | The first note was not paid when it fell due . |
| 8 | When it fell vacant , one bit of history conditioned the argument . |
| 9 | Through the right of his mother , Edward had himself claimed the French crown when it fell vacant in 1328 , but probably more in hope than expectation , for in the following year and again in 1331 he acknowledged Philip VI 's lordship of Gascony ; not until 1337 was his own interest in the French crown voiced again . |
| 10 | ‘ My son-in-law was offered the living of St Ermin 's when it fell vacant recently , ’ she said , ‘ but he felt there would be more scope here . ’ |
| 11 | In this same category , but with an even more urgent insistence , he placed the irreversibility of monastic commitment , even when it fell short of a formal vow . |
| 12 | Payton could have completed a hat-trick a minute later but shot wide when it looked easier to score . |
| 13 | It further reported that membership was over 100 and when it reached 150 , subscriptions would be increased . |
| 14 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 15 | As well , the rest of the house was as near to immaculate as a house could be when it contained three teenage boys and a busy man . |
| 16 | The BMA 's understanding when it left last Wednesday 's talks , he said , was that that no longer applied . |
| 17 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 18 | She was on the verge of ignoring the summons , on the reasonable assumption that the visitor had pressed the wrong buzzer , when it sounded several more times . |
| 19 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 20 | The Russians for their part promised to recognize the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary when it seemed appropriate and Austria agreed not to oppose the union of Bulgaria and eastern Roumelia , if circumstances brought it about . |
| 21 | When it seemed impossible to sink any lower , the team rose to the challenge and sputtered their way through a pitiful draw with Iran , in which an own goal saved them from defeat . |
| 22 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 23 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 24 | The operation was running smoothly as the yacht rounded the North Foreland when it seemed certain that a landing would be made somewhere in the Thames Estuary . |
| 25 | She had wondered about it briefly when it seemed certain that her mother and Michele 's father had known each other in the past . |
| 26 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 27 | She ignored the flickering screen , and let her thoughts drift on , because it was one of those rare times when she was thinking well , when striking and truthful ideas seemed to occur to her effortlessly , rising fully articulated into the mind , when it seemed possible that one day she might write poetry . |
| 28 | When it seemed likely that cars would be prohibited , they decided to return to the Lakes . |
| 29 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 30 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |