Example sentences of "and when [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when one made it to the centre circle and started his own sit-in , to Speedie that was like a red rag to a bull . |
| 2 | The Court felt that , ‘ Such information can be of tremendous historical value in demonstrating what agency personnel were involved in making a particular policy decision and what officials knew and when they knew it . ’ |
| 3 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |
| 4 | She wanted to know what cancer was and when they said it was terminal , she asked what that meant . |
| 5 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 6 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 7 | They quarrelled hardly at all and when they did it was almost always because Roland expressed concern about Val 's reserve with the world in general , her refusal to advance opinions in class , and later , even to him . |
| 8 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 9 | Clearly they were not the sort of married couple that was used to communicating by letter , and when they did it was only rarely that anything illuminating was said . |
| 10 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 11 | Val and I set off with intentions to watch the jumps , but the Skippers road to the bridge is specifically excluded from motor insurance policies and when we saw it , we understood why ; it 's a dirt track along a precipice . |
| 12 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 13 | And when we looked it all er all , it had gone all the way through the mattress |
| 14 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 15 | and when we got it back the flipping thing wo n't play at all |
| 16 | then , no Ian had an orange one and when we pedalled it up and down it kept falling off so Katie put a bolt in it , a wee little one and it screwed onto the tractor bit . |
| 17 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 18 | And when we brought it home it would n't go . |
| 19 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 20 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 21 | In the egg with the sun was a goose , and when it emerged it flew honking away : the first sound of this world . |
| 22 | and when it arrived it turned out to be a donation from the Lord Mayor 's charity . |
| 23 | and when I looked it up it had about six other words to go with it . |
| 24 | " I hate her , " Lalage spoke seriously , I d like to stick a knife in her , and when I got it in — you know what I 'd do ? " |
| 25 | And when I had it customized , I could boast I was wearing something that was made-to-measure — twice . |
| 26 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 27 | However , this behaviour was short-lived , and when I dropped it , my dreams began to change . |
| 28 | The removable sole is fairly thin and when I took it out I noticed that several small staples protrude quite sharply through the inner lining , which could become a problem after more use . |
| 29 | ‘ A Gnat honours his promise , ’ I told him , and I took his kite down off the racks I was amazed how light it was It was beautiful It was big , silicon black , with scarlet lines , and when I took it outside , the sun flashed rainbows off the shoulder hooks . |
| 30 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |