Example sentences of "[vb -s] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this message is unlikely to be one that LDDC highlights when it approaches Whitehall for money , there is no doubting it has shifted its public relations away from targeting solely yuppies and City businessmen . |
| 2 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 3 | I do n't propose to enter into a tutorial on the enhanced commands , but take it from me that you can manipulate how a program looks when it opens , and even feed keystrokes to it automatically , have it run macros , and so forth . |
| 4 | That 's what it says when it does n't know and does n't want to admit it . |
| 5 | Yeah I do n't think she she would have that because see what the report says when it comes through . |
| 6 | What happens when it comes down to choosing the material you put on your albums ? |
| 7 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |
| 8 | So it depends when it occurs . |
| 9 | depends when it happens , I mean we we 're still waiting to find out where some of the changes , erm in terms of layouts and the like are gon na be done . |
| 10 | it just depends when it stops weeping you see |
| 11 | ‘ The most terribly overlooked architect of the twentieth century ’ , according to Sherri Geldin of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles , Louis Kahn 's work drew crowds of 1,200 a day in Paris and the exhibition received rave reviews when it opened . |
| 12 | The book 's first Russian readers seem not to have taken up its principal insight , that the most dangerous moment for an authoritarian government arrives when it tries to reform itself . |
| 13 | The velar nasal , described in Chapter 7 , also raises a lot of analysis problems ; some writers have suggested that the correct analysis is one in which there is no phoneme , and this sound is treated as an allophone of the phoneme that occurs when it precedes the phoneme . |
| 14 | In short , an action succeeds when it fulfils ( i.e. achieves the object of ) the desire that has combined with some belief to cause that action . |
| 15 | ‘ Do come to my picnic , ’ the woman said , and her voice sounded as her silk scarf sounds when it trails behind her through the branches in the wood . |
| 16 | Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts . |
| 17 | No doubt they also do crossword puzzles when it rains . |
| 18 | It is the only substance , liquid at normal temperatures , which expands when it solidifies or freezes — a property shared only by diamond , silicon and germanium , three solids whose structures are related to that of ice . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your hair sets when it cools down — not when it 's hot . |
| 21 | It shrinks when it lies across the circle — along a diameter-compared to what it 's like when measuring round the circle . |
| 22 | It often happens in rapid speech that a nasal consonant disappears when it comes between a vowel and another consonant ( for example , this may happen to the in ‘ front ’ : when this happens the preceding vowel becomes nasalised ( some of the air escapes through the nose ) . |
| 23 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Now I know what Scripture means when it says : ‘ Do n't cast your pearls before swine ’ . ’ |
| 25 | That is what the Labour party means when it says it wants councils to raise more of the money that they spend . |
| 26 | In this respect considerable reliance was placed upon Lord Diplock 's dictum in Gill and Duffus SA v Berger and Co Inc [ 1984 ] AC 382 : … while " description " itself is an ordinary English word , the Act contains no definition of what it means when it speaks in that section of a contract for the sale of goods being a sale " by description " . |
| 27 | You see , pound coins were not made to rest in drains , they were meant to circulate , they were meant to be used , they were meant as a means of currency and that 's what the bible means when it talks about being lost . |
| 28 | Means when it 's put out to pasture |
| 29 | It is , so what it means when it 's lost is , it is not able to fulfil the function for which it was made . |
| 30 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |