Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Alex Aitken , of the Conservative Collegiate Forum , was loudly applauded when he said it was ‘ intolerable ’ that taxpayers should have to fund the left-wing propaganda of the NUS . |
| 2 | So the first thing an owl will do when you release it is to scout out the land . |
| 3 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 4 | Catriona had already laughed when she realised it was n't a joke . |
| 5 | At the sound of footsteps the Captain looked around , and frowned when he saw it was Mum bearing down on him . |
| 6 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 7 | Anyway , I 'm here now and I 'll say this much , Harry , old chap , you were n't exaggerating when you said it was beautiful … and everything so vast , so spacious . ’ |
| 8 | He finished off quickly as I came in , apologized when he realized it was my pen , and that was an end to it . |
| 9 | What does it mean when it says it is the last time . |
| 10 | Yet in his interview with the editors of the magazine Movie Hitchcock agreed when they suggested it was a zoom-out while the camera tracked in , the precise opposite . |
| 11 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
| 12 | You see what I mean when I say it 's nothing new , it 's been endlessly talked around . |