Example sentences of "[vb past] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet it nearly stopped when it started . |
| 5 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 6 | As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bob watched her all the way down the stairs , agonized on her behalf ; still more agonized when it occurred to him , just as she went out of sight , that he should have gone down with her and carried the case . |
| 9 | In fact Libya 's only legal infraction came when it offered to release the two to the Arab League . |
| 10 | She came when it suited her , when she could spare the time from her other work , but she always popped in on Monday afternoons to make a start on the ironing . |
| 11 | Relief came when it flew away and left our little group in the quiet on the top of the mountain range . |
| 12 | The bomb-shell exploded when it added that those sixty-six coupons must last for a whole year . |
| 13 | What he discovered was that the G cell turned when it met the axons of cells A1 and A2 , whereas C turned and followed two other pioneer cells , P1 and P2 . |
| 14 | Mrs Hunter-Blair telephoned when it appeared . |
| 15 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 16 | ‘ In a way it 's quite lucky it all happened when it did — but it 's a shame for other people who will be bringing cases forward in the near future . ’ |
| 17 | I done forgot when it opened |
| 18 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 23 | It had n't er I went when it opened . |
| 24 | She says that she screamed when it happened , she did n't know what to do . |
| 25 | fruit fell when it passed . |
| 26 | No I meant when it goes up you need little things now and again . |
| 27 | Bissell 's eyes never left Rohmer as he spoke , and Rohmer knew what the thing meant when it said it would n't talk to Gilbert anymore . |
| 28 | Richard Montague-Smith , who was 15 , took his brother 's Escort car without consent and died when it left the road at more than 70 miles an hour on the Birdlip bypass near Gloucester earlier this year . |
| 29 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 30 | ALL 141 people aboard a Boeing 737 died when it crashed into a mountain in China 's worst air crash yesterday . |