Example sentences of "[noun sg] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tory government contributed to proliferation when it permitted the supply of nuclear weapons material to Saddam Hussein . |
| 2 | Mary fell off her horse when it bucked . |
| 3 | He rubbed the muzzle of a horse when it nosed up to him , and scratched its ears . |
| 4 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |
| 5 | The Times ( 15 August 1898 ) had given the broadest indication of the shock-waves produced by the push-bike when it delivered its editorial judgement on ‘ The Bicycle as a Social Force ’ , which bristled with otherwise unaccountable fears and allusions to deeper moving forces within society . |
| 6 | He was at the Department when it abolished the maternity grant . |
| 7 | But it only explodes into violence when it has been suppressed . |
| 8 | That 'll be a good dictionary when it comes out . |
| 9 | One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion . |
| 10 | Not short of a pound when it came to putting clothes on her back , I can tell you … ’ |
| 11 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 12 | Starlings , which are active during the day , lock onto melatonin when it coincides with the end of their activity . |
| 13 | Thus , in December 1983 it was made very clear that other unions would not encourage the small National Graphical Association when it defied the law over Eddie Shah 's nonunion printing operations in Warrington and insisted on conducting a strike deemed by the high court to be illegal . |
| 14 | In other words , pre-exposure to the stimulus may both retard the acquisition of the CS-US association and act to interfere with the retrieval of the information embodied in this association when it comes to a test trial . |
| 15 | The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing . |
| 16 | Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard . |
| 17 | Cats do n't usually take to car travel , that 's why I do n't often take any of mine with me , and shutting them up in cages goes against the grain , but my sister 's two Burmese love the car , they 'll go and sit in the car when it parked . |
| 18 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 19 | she , she knows this car when it goes by |
| 20 | ONE of two teenagers killed in a stolen car when it crashed into a tree in west Belfast will be buried on Saturday . |
| 21 | A lockable fuel cap stops thieves stealing your petrol and also forces the casual thief to abandon your car when it runs out of fuel . |
| 22 | In Benton v Campbell , Parker and Co Ltd [ 1925 ] 2 KB 410 , it was held that the auctioneer was not liable to the purchaser for the sale of a car when it transpired that the person who put the car into the auction was not the owner . |
| 23 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 24 | As a consequence , the chick when it hatches is very fully developed and able to dig its own way up through the sand . |
| 25 | Nor can the nest accommodate the chick when it hatches . |
| 26 | Dinah had not called , and had drunk the tea when it came ; after that , she began to have sharp pains in the small of the back . |
| 27 | I suppose if you put all this together you would say I 'm not exactly the archetypal Mills & Boon tall dark stranger when it comes to courting girls . |
| 28 | The cost of unsold or unconsumed stocks will have been incurred in the expectation of future revenue , and when this will not arise until a later year it is appropriate to carry forward this cost to be matched with the revenue when it arises . |
| 29 | This verb is used in the Old Testament when it means the salvation of God for his people . |
| 30 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |