Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as proof in the healing power of accepted love her hands undid him , as he undid her , until , naked together , he lifted himself to enter her , and if for McAllister there was a moment of trapped fear it disappeared when she was truly his , and they were , at last , one thing , moving together in harmony in an experience quite unlike the shock and terror which she had felt with Havvie , and had always feared would happen to her if she ever made love again . |
| 2 | In practice it occurs when deaf children can write a word better than speak it . |
| 3 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 4 | She had turned other men — men she did n't hate — away at her door before now without going through all this prior angst , meeting the moment with the tact or firmness it required when it came , but not before . |
| 5 | It is believed , as already mentioned , that one of the greatest pleasures for a child comes from the security it feels when it knows that it is loved , and it is the ability to withhold manifestations of that love for a little while , or threaten so to do , that provides a non-violent means of securing acquiescence when it is required . |
| 6 | Think of the difference it makes when you can look at programmes like that in the classroom on a video player : you can stop the programme at any point , you can go back and look at something again , you can choose to break it up into as many short sections as you want to and you can come back to it another day to refresh students ' memories . |
| 7 | Colleagues , in moving this motion I am seeking the C E C to give this union the credit it deserves when achieving victory for its members throughout with a wider publicity campaign through the media , although if is on the television again tonight I think he 's gon na have a higher rating than Coronation Street this week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 10 | It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom . |
| 11 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 12 | It 's pretty good fun — I like the noise it makes when it breaks . |
| 13 | The price you pay for your lawnmower does not reflect the cost to your neighbours of the noise it makes when you use it . |
| 14 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' education committee opted not to continue the support it gave when the Government withdrew funding for Scotland 's only adult residential college in 1988 . |
| 15 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 16 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 17 | Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts . |
| 18 | They may write is for his , or Inglish for English , because that 's the way it sounds when people say it . |
| 19 | The wonderful thing about the human mind , Adam thought , is the way it copes when the worst happens . |
| 20 | The prime minister 's smile spread even further in the slightly crooked way it had when he thought he had an opponent hoist with his own petard . |
| 21 | No — I 've had it cut short before and I did n't like the way it feels when you wake up in the mornings — really weird . |
| 22 | There is nothing more frustrating than finding that you ca n't make your hair look the way it did when you left the salon . ’ |
| 23 | She smiled trustingly at him and his heart melted the way it did when his small nieces slipped their hands into his when he took them out . |
| 24 | SunSelect Inc chief Carl Ledbetter says the company does n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc : WABI has n't been turned into a product yet but something 's expected shortly and it should be bundled into Solaris this year ; meanwhile , Quorum Software Systems Inc will put Equal , its Macintosh application adaptor on Solaris-on-Sparc , and ship it later this quarter , giving Sun access to Mac versions of Word and Excel . |
| 25 | SunSelect chief Carl Ledbetter says they do n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc . |
| 26 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |