Example sentences of "when it [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it saw the three figures it stopped , then , perhaps with memories of puppy-walkers , still with a broken leather couple round its neck , it approached the man whimpering softly , its tail waving . |
| 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 | Blood dripped from his sword , smoking when it touched the scorched earth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | when it said the bottles had stuck to the blood on the carpet ? |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 10 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 11 | The latest sell-offs are in line the promises made by TI when it took the group over last year . |
| 12 | A typewritten statement in Arabic delivered to a Western news agency in west Beirut said that the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ — a name previously used by Abu Nidal 's organisation when it kidnapped the Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , in southern Lebanon last year — had ‘ executed the death sentence ’ against Dr Wybran , adding that this was done to encourage the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza strip . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A crack the size of the Grand Canyon streaked up the drive , stopping only when it reached the garage doors . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When it reached the more sober atmosphere of the Upper House , the clause was decisively rejected , again on a free vote ( except for the Government Front Bench ) , by a majority of 153 ( 181 votes to 28 ) , despite a powerful plea in its support by Viscount Templewood , who , as Sir Samuel Hoare , had been the Home Secretary so enthused about pre-war prison reform . |
| 18 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 19 | When it reached the twelfth , Benjamin and I dressed in boots and cloaks , put on our sword belts and quietly left . |
| 20 | When it reached the door the metal exploded into a shower of hot droplets . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | About three tonnes of gold deposited in Sweden had been handed over to the Soviet Union when it recognised the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1941 . |
| 23 | How fast was car A going when it ran the stop sign ? |
| 24 | Some of it was judicial , when it heard the complaints of private persons . |
| 25 | Washington could not but be uneasy when it heard the British ( and later the French ) hinting ( and sometimes stating more explicitly ) that their nuclear force might be used to trigger American use of nuclear weapons in an East–West confrontation . |
| 26 | The government had attempted to regain public support when it honoured the martyrs of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Communist rule , also in October . |
| 27 | Zarathustra declared that at death God passes judgement on man and that this decides his fate when the world is finally transformed into the same state of perfection as when it left the hands of the Creator . |
| 28 | Richard Montague-Smith , who was 15 , took his brother 's Escort car without consent and died when it left the road at more than 70 miles an hour on the Birdlip bypass near Gloucester earlier this year . |
| 29 | The impalpable principle of life and thought , pure as when it left the creator to inspire the creature . |
| 30 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |