Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I fought against it , the resulting unpleasantness always upset my father . |
| 2 | When I got in it looked like a tortoise . |
| 3 | Oh it said in the , in the book when I read about it , it said it had green flowers , you say is that green flowers |
| 4 | ‘ I preferred the days when we were smaller and I could work when I felt like it . |
| 5 | ‘ I just looked at my books when I felt like it . |
| 6 | And when I came to it was with an audible pop in the ears , and a rich consciousness of solitude , and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in , which even now was preoccupied and unconcerned , straining out over the rose bed to adjust a loose swathe of clematis on the wooden wall . |
| 7 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 8 | Now this house had been standing empty when I came in it , for twelve months . |
| 9 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 10 | with a hole in the top and that , and when I went in it was in its box , facing the back of the box and its tail sticking out . |
| 11 | The children — that 's what I told myself when I thought about it . |
| 12 | Nor did I when I thought about it . |
| 13 | When I thought about it clearly I could n't see myself in that role . ’ |
| 14 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 15 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 16 | When I looked at it , I cried out in spite of myself . |
| 17 | When I looked at it , I held it close to my eyes . |
| 18 | I felt a bit gutted myself when I looked at it . " |
| 19 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 20 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
| 21 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 22 | Central heating That were n't even on when I looked at it . |
| 23 | He said when I looked at it was coming backwards . |
| 24 | when I looked at it I wanted to do it . |
| 25 | It was fairly it was fairly cheap when I looked into it |
| 26 | And the rubbish bin in the kitchen was empty when I looked in it as we left . ’ |
| 27 | It 's very very funny because I actually laughed about it when I listened to it on tape first of all and I felt well maybe |
| 28 | When I turned round it was my father I saw standing in the doorway . |
| 29 | When I shouted in it I thought you were joking . |
| 30 | When I spoke about it th the barman rushed across and put the fans |