Example sentences of "when it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped abruptly when it saw Rosie , an uncertainty shadowing its haunted eyes . |
| 2 | The little frog was definitely gazing hard in Maud 's direction , and when it saw Enid turn to look , it began jumping up and down and croaking like a mad thing . |
| 3 | Hanson yesterday began the break-up of the Consolidated Gold Field 's empire when it sold ARC Construction to its management for £6.3million . |
| 4 | When it touched Parker it had evidently acquired a tremendous spin , and for a second it must have been spinning beneath me . |
| 5 | They were in full pursuit of a great boar when it sought refuge , exhausted , in the hermitage of a monk from the abbey . |
| 6 | Today there are other causes for a decline but when it happens unemployment spreads in the same way , from one industry to another . |
| 7 | Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman . |
| 8 | Walk slowly away when it loses interest . ’ |
| 9 | The £12m , which continues to rise , compares with the £17½m paid by the company in expenses when it raised £250m in its stock market flotation last year . |
| 10 | The £12m , which continues to rise , compares with the £17½m paid by the company in expenses when it raised £250m in its stock market flotation last year . |
| 11 | When Labour opposed sequestration of union assets it meant , ‘ strike freely ’ , when it said trade union immunities would be restored it meant ‘ strike often ’ , and when it approved of enabling secondary action it meant ‘ strike anywhere ’ . |
| 12 | All it was doing was essentially the same operation as that performed by the computer when it copies data from one location to another . |
| 13 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 14 | This portable burglar alarm will give off a loud shriek when it detects movement — good for unattended tents , caravans or boats , or just for extra security at night |
| 15 | When it downgraded Italy this week , the rating agency said it feared that future governments might fail to pursue the tough policies needed to bring Italian public spending under control . |
| 16 | And I think when it says notes for supervisor , we can just put manager down there . |
| 17 | well can you explain please as the man who devised these charges and assessed them and work them out how by some process of reason anybody reading that sentence gets the clue that when it says management charges will rise at a rate below the level of inflation , it refers to one pound fifty nine , how can you understand that ? |
| 18 | So it 's no good when it says Scotland it 's not a erm Yeah now what 's wrong with it ? |
| 19 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 20 | IRELAND 'S South Donegal Railway Restoration Society received a major boost in its efforts to reopen part of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 's narrow gauge system when it took possession of two of the railway 's few surviving passenger vehicles . |
| 21 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 22 | The dinner party , when it took place , was a disaster . |
| 23 | ‘ There were obviously a lot of people there when it took place . |
| 24 | Such measures constituted the present Government 's heritage , when it took office in 1979 . |
| 25 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
| 26 | The insecticidal activity of most strains of Bt arises mainly from the proteinaceous δ-endotoxins , which are produced in such large amounts within the cell when it forms spores that they produce a characteristic crystal ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 27 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 28 | I like that thing in Ice Cube when it goes time twelve o'clock , knickers hot , dick hard , arse |
| 29 | The tour itself ran into bad trouble when it reached Stockholm . |
| 30 | Possibly these entered an ancestor of D only when it reached York or Worcester . |