Example sentences of "it when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your travel case reminded me of it when we left the hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ We could n't believe it when we saw the size of the hole it had fallen down , it must have slipped backwards and was just small enough to slip in . ’ |
| 3 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ Fortunately they lost a ball and were looking for it when they spotted the baby wrapped in a towel , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 6 | get all these programmes for some reason , somebody allowed for it when they put the system in , mind you still have to check it I suppose but checked through it , tested it , took me about five minutes , still a minimum charge of an hour |
| 7 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 8 | They will conclude , as people on a South London council estate expressed it when they observed the middle-class congregation going into their local church each Sunday , ‘ That church is n't for the likes of us . ’ |
| 9 | Drivers will accept it when they see the reason for it |
| 10 | Well I love it when they do the acrobatic part of it ! |
| 11 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 12 | believe it when he took the . |
| 13 | One leading designer said he liked it when he saw the front , until he realised the ‘ front ’ was the back . |
| 14 | Laidlaw glanced at it , turned it over , and was about to discard it when he saw the handwritten note scrawled across it . |
| 15 | Edward believed it when he heard the tale . |
| 16 | Jesus uses it when he confronts the disciples after his resurrection : ‘ Why are you so perturbed ? ’ he asks . |
| 17 | Gustave would have been able to inspect it when he visited the British Museum in 1851 . |
| 18 | This paraphrase is not entirely appropriate as a description of the meaning expressed however ; Jespersen ( 1940 : 280 ) does a better job of it when he characterizes the sense of see with the bare infinitive as that of " immediate perception " , and its sense with the to infinitive as that of " inference " . |
| 19 | Bonar Law first welcomed the idea as a means of reducing his party 's dependence on " the trade " , but opposed it when he recognized the scale of party feeling . |
| 20 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 21 | She was about to insert it when she remarked the door ajar . |
| 22 | She held the tip of it just inside her pouting snatch , and only sank down on to it when she saw the door opening . |
| 23 | Even Miss Hervey had remarked on it when she did the test weigh ; seven days old , and taking so much already . |
| 24 | Michelle , 20 , said : ‘ I could n't believe it when I heard the radio and they gave a description of a little girl dressed in her mum 's nightie and shoes . |
| 25 | I was dialling it when I heard the door of Flat 2 open and I glanced over my shoulder to see Fenella , who had added pyjama trousers to her stripey shirt , and Lisabeth , in an ankle-length woollen dressing-gown , creeping down the stairs like they were doing a commercial for a new edition of A. A. Milne books . |
| 26 | ‘ I noticed it when I left the hotel . ’ |
| 27 | I took it when I examined the body and , taken with the rigor which was almost fully established then , I 'd say it was unlikely that he was alive much after nine p.m . |
| 28 | How far away was it when I started the watch ? |
| 29 | ‘ I smelled it when I opened the cupboard this morning . ’ |
| 30 | Go to the damper and open it when I give the word . ’ |