Example sentences of "when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 2 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 3 | When it fills fills the cistern fills up anyway ploomp through the whole house . |
| 4 | when it fills out |
| 5 | Has the Minister accepted the argument which was put strongly to him and to which he listened carefully that day , that it makes no sense for Northumberland to be forced by Government spending restrictions to cut £3.5 million from its education budget when it spends less per pupil than most other authorities ? |
| 6 | The government , when it spends this £1 billion , pays with cheques drawn on its account at the Bank of England . |
| 7 | Until a couple of days before the price was announced Warburg was working towards a Fr70 price , and only pushed this up to Fr72 ( 707p ) when it saw how strong demand was . |
| 8 | When it saw what pleasure the servicemen had from the course , the Club was pleased its struggle to keep it open had been successful . |
| 9 | The little frog was definitely gazing hard in Maud 's direction , and when it saw Enid turn to look , it began jumping up and down and croaking like a mad thing . |
| 10 | It stopped abruptly when it saw Rosie , an uncertainty shadowing its haunted eyes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was almost under the mare 's hoofs when it saw fit to leap into the air and then dart away at speed . |
| 13 | The Government also ignored the Confederation 's plea to use its finances to support YT when it saw fit . |
| 14 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 15 | But when it come to you , master Conroy , and you hardly out of short trousers … ’ |
| 16 | Blofeld is not alone when it come to the Josef Stalin Caring Employer Award . |
| 17 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 18 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 19 | Now when it come to wars , governments are funny |
| 20 | ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’ |
| 21 | And if it was n't , My goodness it was a job when it come wet weather and it maybe be lying flat and it all had to be set up , and we had stooks for days . |
| 22 | but when it come out me mouth , as soon as I said it I thought you should n't speak to people to people like that but I 'd said it had n't I ? |
| 23 | yeah , do n't , I know name when it come up like that . |
| 24 | I , I bought that when it come out about two years ago . |
| 25 | It acquired the shares when it sold a London property to EL last year . |
| 26 | Hanson yesterday began the break-up of the Consolidated Gold Field 's empire when it sold ARC Construction to its management for £6.3million . |
| 27 | Grumman veterans bear the scars from the company 's many setbacks , especially the export triumph Grumman scored when it sold lots of F-14 Tomcats to Iran under the shah . |
| 28 | A design for a tapestry by Rubens set a record when it sold for £748,000 . |
| 29 | A fire painting by Yves Klein ( lot 65 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) attracted the session 's highest price when it sold to a telephone bidder for £75,000 . |
| 30 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |