Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 2 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 3 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 4 | That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ? |
| 5 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 6 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
| 7 | When she did it the second time . |
| 8 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 9 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 10 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 11 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 12 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 15 | When he touched it the doors swung open instantly and with a disconcerting noiselessness . |