Example sentences of "[subord] when [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 2 | It was n't a four-letter word , although when one uttered it , one might have been forgiven for thinking that it was . |
| 3 | Whenever the students thought they were evaluating the work of a man , they assessed it as far more impressive than when they thought it was authored by a woman , whose efforts were labelled mediocre . |
| 4 | ‘ That makes it much more difficult , you know , than when I thought it was only me , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 6 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 7 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 8 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 9 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 10 | We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that . |
| 11 | Well it looked as cos when I picked it up , there 's a sort of thing was blown over , |
| 12 | Yeah I had a look er through it just before when I got it . |
| 13 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 14 | The place is in the same gleaming order as when I left it last , the only sign of Lee 's presence being the neatly made camp-bed and a regimented row of balled socks beside his kit-bag in the dining room . |
| 15 | If you try to return to your BBCBASIC(Z80) program , you will find yourself in the same situation as when you left it . |
| 16 | It collects barnacles and slime , and when you release it it 's never quite the same as when you locked it away . |