Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senate may vote this week on a bill to give the proposed department that authority , but the issue is expected to remain controversial when it moves to the House of Representatives . |
| 2 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 3 | However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture . |
| 4 | The same holds true when it comes to a consideration of the reasons for the individual grants made by the Romans . |
| 5 | I think it looks alright when it 's cut back . |
| 6 | It will , it just might slide a bit but it will stop sliding when it comes off it . |
| 7 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 8 | Did you get wet when it rained ? ’ |
| 9 | The composer Henri Sauguet was astonished to discover that his cat , Cody , became ecstatic when it heard Debussy being played on the piano . |
| 10 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 11 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 12 | The car 's tremendous torque proves invaluable when it comes to overtaking ; it leaps the fourth-gear 30–50mph increment in just 6.5secs . |
| 13 | Payton could have completed a hat-trick a minute later but shot wide when it looked easier to score . |