Example sentences of "when it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 2 | When it saw the three figures it stopped , then , perhaps with memories of puppy-walkers , still with a broken leather couple round its neck , it approached the man whimpering softly , its tail waving . |
| 3 | It acquired the shares when it sold a London property to EL last year . |
| 4 | On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too . |
| 5 | Blood dripped from his sword , smoking when it touched the scorched earth . |
| 6 | In-service training is desirable only when it fulfils a felt need . |
| 7 | Thus when it replaces an item at S ( subject ) and that item is written in a later place in the clause , an apposed clause is created . |
| 8 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 9 | A BRITISH seaside resort 's Rotary club found itself way out of its depth when it extended the hand of friendship to a visiting Russian delegation . |
| 10 | Surrey , for example , was described as ‘ not sufficiently generous ’ when it raised the income scale to allow for the rise in wages to match the cost of living . |
| 11 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 12 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 13 | Then she would find her pride and not indulge in this kind of behaviour when it had no future . |
| 14 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
| 15 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 16 | when it said the bottles had stuck to the blood on the carpet ? |
| 17 | It will be when it suits the MOI , Charity 's lot . ’ |
| 18 | Each of these industries on the continent of Europe is to a greater or lesser extent owned or controlled by the state , and when it suits the authorities to do so , is heavily subsidised . |
| 19 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 20 | When it threatens the conduct of science and the spirit of democracy it should be curbed . |
| 21 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 22 | When it detects a significant change in one of the parameters , it faxes a message to the nearest NRA regional control room . |
| 23 | The erm safety on the transport yes I mean I am very happy to say that we will ask the , the staff to look at that and perhaps I can just clarify the meaning of that paragraph ah in four point eight when it says a m a new member of staff it means a new member of staff will be responsible for health and safety not just one person on his own . |
| 24 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 25 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 26 | On few occasions has it shown less moral scruple than when it made a deal with Brezhnev to dispose of the Soviet gold . |
| 27 | The NUR had an unfortunate experience , apparently , a few years back when it made an unwise sponsorship . |
| 28 | It was not only the student movement that suffered in this way ; the black movement in the US , especially when it took a revolutionary form in the Black Panther Party , was violently suppressed , and in Latin America democratic and radical movements were destroyed , and military dictatorships were installed , often with American help , as in Chile . |
| 29 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 30 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |