Example sentences of "it [vb past] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it passed when he met his companions , as was their custom , and supped at the Golden Mitre . ’ |
| 2 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 3 | But a senior Kuwait delegate claimed his country had offered the other ministers a compromise on the tough quota demands it made when the meeting started but said the proposal were rejected . |
| 4 | Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger . |
| 5 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 6 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 7 | It stopped when she lifted her palm , and came through again when she put it back . |
| 8 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 9 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 10 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 11 | It overheated when workers left the plant for the weekend without adding water to cool the reaction . |
| 12 | It helped when I used to do a bit of coal-bag carrying in my spare time to earn some pin money . |
| 13 | ‘ Like your rug over your knees , Gran ? ’ she asked , knowing it helped when her rheumatism was bad . |
| 14 | You have no idea what a surge of adrenalin it caused when our crowd burst into voice like that , then gave such a huge cheer when a great Craig Chalmers diagonal found touch ten metres out . |
| 15 | The mouth was harsh , downturned at one corner , though it lifted when he smiled . |
| 16 | The increasing number of no-union deals in high technology and other industrial endeavours at the cutting edge of technical innovation inevitably invests the employee compensation scheme with greater potential importance than it assumed when it first became law . |
| 17 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 18 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 19 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 20 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 21 | The incident which will stick for ever in the minds of those who witnessed it came when she was being ushered into the main entrance of Yorkshire Television . |
| 22 | In this respect he was no different from greater Prime Ministers , Gladstone before him and Churchill after him , upon whom senility began to descend while they were still in office , except that with him it came when he was ten years or more younger . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , because it came when the powerful modern methods were in a rudimentary state or were non-existent , Sugden 's work was very stimulating . |
| 24 | It came when her parents pried into her secrets and were horrified by what they found . |
| 25 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 26 | It happened when each thought that the other had locked it . |
| 27 | Details of this incident are not clear ; it happened when Libya was at war , and the movement of foreigners was restricted ; and a year later other more striking events had occurred which overshadowed it . |
| 28 | On this occasion , it happened when 'keeper Barry Woodger was caught napping by a cross-cum-shot from Carpenter . |
| 29 | It happened when we lived in Perth , Western Australia . |
| 30 | Ironically , it happened when a party was staying at the Salvation Army Sailors ' Hostel for a fortnight before going on to Dovercourt , at the kind invitation of Major and Mrs Parker . |