Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] it [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no yo yo i is n't it funny when I thought it is a fault , one of them discarded the right ? |
| 2 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 3 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 4 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |
| 5 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 6 | But I said it 's always the way when you think it 's a good examiner she or she , she gives you bad results and when it 's a bad , think oh an awful examiner I mean look at that one where you got that really tough examiner and you and Jenny was the only two that got honours . |
| 7 | When she arrives it was a trivial matter , your day has been disrupted and you feel angry with yourself for not enquiring about why she was coming . |
| 8 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 9 | and it 's a , an old fashioned music hall , more often than not well when we went it was a pantomime but the first part of the evening was an o a music hall |
| 10 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had a baby we she was expecting a baby and we called it P J , anyw and she said it was going to be Peter John and th anyway when it arrived it was a Pamela Jane . |
| 13 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 14 | Under the television lights does make a lot of difference , but when he knows it 's a big occasion , he can produce the goods when it matters , and there are n't too many of those . |