Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 2 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 3 | Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it . |
| 4 | That 's right , the , the , the id rewards the ego as it were with a feeling of pleasure when it 's when it 's met its demand . |
| 5 | Of course ten billion is an enormous number of people , but it does n't seem quite so alarming a figure when you realise that it 's only twice the current population of the world . |
| 6 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 7 | Chandler , however , ( 1988a , p. 186 ) provides a timely reminder when he concludes that it ‘ is a frequent but pathetic fallacy in political analysis to believe that power necessarily accrues to those who habitually walk with the great ’ . |
| 8 | The animal had been plunging towards the shelter of a riverside bamboo grove when he fired and it had probably been the best shot of his life . |
| 9 | Both these words were used in medieval times ; and we can understand the word knacker as an equivalent for harness-maker when we learn that it comes from an Icelandic root , knakkr , meaning a saddle . |
| 10 | He and my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield posed the best question of the debate when they asked whether it could apply to rail . |
| 11 | For Flew , and for Ayer in Language , Truth and Logic , you realise the vacuousness of religious belief when you realise that it is compatible with any earthly state of affairs whatsoever . |
| 12 | ‘ It was paper when it started and it 's paper afterwards . ’ |
| 13 | Elvis growled on behalf of a whole new generation when he warned that it would be highly inadvisable , no matter what the circumstances , to tread on , or in any way meddle with , his precious blue suede shoes . |
| 14 | They abandoned this idea when they realised that it would mean the end of the NSDAP in Danzig . |
| 15 | ‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow . |
| 16 | ‘ I worked all my life and saved so I would have no worry when I retired but it 's a different story now . |
| 17 | So their affair was begun , their part-time affair , as Maria took to calling it , at first only to herself , but then aloud in Luke 's presence when she discovered that it could bring a quick frown to his face . |
| 18 | That evening , Mike Atherton made a curious but nonetheless accurate observation when he said that it was nice to get in early when the ball 's new and not moving around a lot . |
| 19 | ‘ I speak on behalf of the Labour Party when I say that it is not , and never has been , the duty or responsibility of either a local or education authority to promote homosexuality ... |
| 20 | I mean , I was on stage when he left and it did n't look like a particularly bad scene to me . |