Example sentences of "it [verb] when it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 2 | So it depends when it occurs . |
| 3 | That 's what it says when it does n't know and does n't want to admit it . |
| 4 | Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts . |
| 5 | It is believed , as already mentioned , that one of the greatest pleasures for a child comes from the security it feels when it knows that it is loved , and it is the ability to withhold manifestations of that love for a little while , or threaten so to do , that provides a non-violent means of securing acquiescence when it is required . |
| 6 | What does it mean when it says it is the last time . |
| 7 | What does it mean when it says you know all things . |
| 8 | It shrinks when it lies across the circle — along a diameter-compared to what it 's like when measuring round the circle . |
| 9 | In this respect considerable reliance was placed upon Lord Diplock 's dictum in Gill and Duffus SA v Berger and Co Inc [ 1984 ] AC 382 : … while " description " itself is an ordinary English word , the Act contains no definition of what it means when it speaks in that section of a contract for the sale of goods being a sale " by description " . |
| 10 | It is , so what it means when it 's lost is , it is not able to fulfil the function for which it was made . |
| 11 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 12 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |
| 13 | I 'm going to look at what happens to helium at low temperatures , and in particular I 'm going to see what it does when it 's stuck onto carbon , which it will do very readily . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When you study a play as part of an English Literature course , you 're not looking at the staging of it ; you 're not looking at how it works when it stands up . |
| 16 | It dies when it runs out of water to breathe and pump round its body . |
| 17 | It 's pretty good fun — I like the noise it makes when it breaks . |