Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 15 | The dinner party , when it took place , was a disaster . |
| 16 | ‘ There were obviously a lot of people there when it took place . |
| 17 | Such measures constituted the present Government 's heritage , when it took office in 1979 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The tour itself ran into bad trouble when it reached Stockholm . |
| 21 | Possibly these entered an ancestor of D only when it reached York or Worcester . |
| 22 | The simplest reported that two Octopuses at Portsmouth Sea Life Centre required the use of two giant beer coolers from the Carlsberg brewery to chill the Solent sea water used in the tanks when it reached 22°C . |
| 23 | The composer Henri Sauguet was astonished to discover that his cat , Cody , became ecstatic when it heard Debussy being played on the piano . |
| 24 | That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December . |
| 25 | It is said the Sun planet SunSelect , the unit that bought WABI when it acquired Norwood , Massachusetts-based Praxsys Technologies Inc , has already received a letter from Microsoft complaining that WABI violates its intellectual property rights . |
| 26 | It is said that Sun 's SunSelect , the unit that picked up WABI when it acquired Norwood , Massachusetts-based Praxsys Technologies Inc , has already received a letter from Microsoft complaining that WABI violates its intellectual property rights . |
| 27 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 28 | And when it sprayed sparks almost to the edge of the wide hearth he made no comment , such as , ‘ Be careful . |
| 29 | Sharon Griffiths was travelling in a car driven by her sister when it collided head on with the stolen vehicle . |
| 30 | This was the conclusion of the Policy Planning Staff which , when it began work in February 1949 , certainly had enough circumstantial evidence to prompt such a conclusion . |