Example sentences of "when it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 32 | When it finally stopped I opened my eyes , and though by this time I was prepared for anything I still felt slightly surprised to sec The Butcher threading a needle with a length of suture silk . |
| 33 | Notable among new political parties in the Russian Federation were the Social Democratic Party of Russia , which had held its founding congress in Moscow on May 4 , when it already claimed over 4,000 members ( including more than 100 USSR and Russian parliamentary deputies ) ; and the Democratic Party of Russia , which had held its founding congress in Moscow at the end of May . |
| 34 | But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside . |
| 35 | He said that Iraq had achieved " a complicated scientific leap " when it successfully tested the launching . |
| 36 | On the other hand the BDDA scored a triumph , which it circulated " to every mission and school for the deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom " , when it successfully campaigned for the nondiscriminatory insurance of deaf and dumb people in employment under the Workmen 's Compensation , Unemployment and Invalidity Acts which the Lloyd George Government passed early in the twentieth century . |
| 37 | The company is still paying off the debts incurred when it simultaneously bought itself out from parent company Perkin-Elmer and acquired rival real-time vendor Masscomp , back in 1988 ( UX No 191 ) , but last week filed a public offer of sufficient new shares to raise about $60m . |
| 38 | Fenella had expected the silver door to feel cool and silvery and solid and was surprised when it actually felt extremely hot . |
| 39 | Erm right through till eighty two when it actually got funding . |
| 40 | When it actually came to writing rather than vaguely thinking about his address , Henry found it more difficult than he had expected . |
| 41 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 42 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 43 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 44 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 45 | When it subsequently became apparent that there were insufficient volunteers and compulsory redundancies would be necessary , the union was informed but there was no reaction . |
| 46 | And if the theatre score really was copied for the 1693 revival , why , when it subsequently disappeared , was the company forced to advertise for its return , and unable to revive the work when it failed to turn up ? |
| 47 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 48 | When it sometimes emerged from her own lips , her teachers or friends would look at her oddly , wondering whether they had heard her correctly . |
| 49 | The United Kingdom government had earlier broken ranks when it unilaterally lifted the investment ban in February 1990 [ see p. 37234 ] . |
| 50 | The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent . |
| 51 | And it was a , whe when it then became more respectable , I lost interest in it . |
| 52 | But when it really mattered , other priorities came first . |
| 53 | He said : ‘ We have struggled all season to find the right guy but Lloyd Davies came up trumps when it really mattered . ’ |
| 54 | Next it was against the Swedes when it really counted in the European championship . |
| 55 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 56 | It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 57 | ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’ |
| 58 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 59 | She was motoring through Germany , though , when it suddenly dawned on her that she had n't asked Cara that most fundamental of questions — when was she supposed to return to England ? |
| 60 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |