Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 31 | I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed . |
| 32 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 33 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 34 | It tinkled furiously , as it always did when he became agitated for any reason . |
| 35 | It always happened when her allowance arrived . |
| 36 | Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ? |
| 37 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 38 | The term primitive , however , no longer has the pejorative connotation in anthropological , and socio-philosophical writings , that it once had when the evolutionary theory prevailed . |
| 39 | It whoolly sticks when you turn thet wheel : I fare to think it wants greasin' . ’ |
| 40 | The general 's effective rejection of the peace charter , which has yet to be formally presented by the 31 Christian and 31 Muslim deputies gathered in Taif for the past two weeks , risks plunging Lebanon into a new cycle of the violence from which it temporarily escaped when the Arab League brokered a ceasefire on 23 September . |
| 41 | It also occurs when people who want to go on working are forced to retire because of their age or because of stereotyped assumptions based on age . |
| 42 | It also helps when the time comes to break off the affair , because you can talk about the money instead of feelings and love and messy , painful stuff like that . |
| 43 | Yet it nearly stopped when it started . |
| 44 | It probably began when jackals huddled round his camp-fire to snatch bones and scraps of food . |
| 45 | It really echoes when you bang the table . |
| 46 | Just to make it hard it 's because this is how it really works when we 're sharing out things . |
| 47 | It simply breeds when conditions are suitable , that is , immediately after heavy rain . |
| 48 | This obviously applies when the word " language " is used in its direct sense , but it equally applies when it is used symbolically for perceptions and values . |
| 49 | It then rested when finances ran out before resuming in 1790 and reaching its intended link with the Aire and Calder and Don navigations in 1816 and thence to the Humber estuary . |
| 50 | It occasionally happened when he started an improvisation . |
| 51 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |