Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was beginning to swell and there were signs of bruising , but she could move her fingers , although it hurt when she tried to bend her wrist . |
| 2 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 3 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I suspect that it started when I would read my grandmother 's Sunday School prizes and my father 's Sunday School prizes as a small boy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 8 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 9 | It is worth remembering that Basildon and Thurrock health authority now treats 11,000 more patients in hospital each year than it did when it was first created in 1982 . |
| 10 | Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It rained on days when they needed sun and it blazed when Nichols wanted a rain sequence . |
| 15 | " Aye , " said the old farmer , " that 's cos it smoked when it were little . " |
| 16 | But it passed when he met his companions , as was their custom , and supped at the Golden Mitre . ’ |
| 17 | But it altered when John took her down the hill to her tramstop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , because it came when the powerful modern methods were in a rudimentary state or were non-existent , Sugden 's work was very stimulating . |
| 20 | They do sack 'em , because it happened when there was full employment , never mind about three million on the dole . |
| 21 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 22 | But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building . |
| 23 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 24 | The mouth was harsh , downturned at one corner , though it lifted when he smiled . |
| 25 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 26 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 27 | No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new . |
| 28 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 29 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 30 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |