Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 2 | When I started it was with Ivy , and she were married in North Ronaldsay with the brother of Sydney , Roy . |
| 3 | When you backshift it 's like the chain 's come off so I just use the rear brake to settle the suspension and stop the rear end from going crazy . ’ |
| 4 | Well when you when you say it 's in mothballs , erm how seriously in mothballs ? |
| 5 | ‘ When you talked it was like you 'd just thought of it . |
| 6 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |
| 7 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 8 | When she spoke it was to the shoes . |
| 9 | She radiated a peculiar authority — they all felt it — yet when she spoke it was in a small , flat voice hardly above a whisper . |
| 10 | The journey had been too much for her , he thought apprehensively , but when she spoke it was in a cheerful raised voice . |
| 11 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 12 | When they laugh it 's with sheer joy . |
| 13 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 14 | When he responded it was in a monotone , as though reciting a catechism . |
| 15 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 16 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 17 | He looked past her , his expression withdrawn and distant in the way she disliked , and when he spoke it was without warmth : ‘ I was personal slave to the Master and as such did personal tasks . ’ |
| 18 | When he spoke it was as if he were dictating a letter to her , concentrating on the correctness of his grammar and syntax . |
| 19 | When he spoke it was in a barely audible voice as if he feared that his words would carry beyond the four walls . |
| 20 | When he spoke it was in the voice of a small , hurt boy . |
| 21 | When he arrived it was at a very particular time of day . |
| 22 | When he prays it is in a voice ‘ humble , treatable and slow ’ ; the congregation 's responses ‘ are to be done not in a huddling , or slobbery fashion , gaping or scratching the head , or spitting in the midst of their answer ’ . |