Example sentences of "[verb] when [pers pn] [vb past] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 2 | He was laughing when he said it . |
| 3 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 4 | Earlier , Alex Aitken , of the Conservative Collegiate Forum , was loudly applauded when he said it was ‘ intolerable ’ that taxpayers should have to fund the left-wing propaganda of the NUS . |
| 5 | Her inimitable use of rhythm caught many a class member on the wrong foot , but how spirits lifted when we got it right , and the ultimate but awful joy was being chosen to demonstrate . |
| 6 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 7 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 8 | that never did anything , that we inherited , and when we moved all that stuff that was on there , all that junk , erm , when we first moved , I thought it might flourish when it sorted it , but it 's kind of spindly so , that 's gone , no , no , another bush , over this side |
| 9 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 10 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 11 | The soft little click the door made when she closed it caused him to turn his head , and not by one flicker of an eyelash did he betray any emotion of her entrance . |
| 12 | Actually it depends when you said it . |
| 13 | Now I protested that it was n't properly decorated yet and that I 'd rather he came when I had it looking its best . |
| 14 | I remember the shock-horror and accusations of non-femininity that my first one provoked when I wore it to push the pram up Edinburgh 's steep streets in 1967 . |
| 15 | The parcel exploded when she opened it , singeing her head and arms . |
| 16 | He knocked softly on her door and his face was still drawn when she opened it . |
| 17 | Catriona had already laughed when she realised it was n't a joke . |
| 18 | It was an invitation to show work in the Arts Council 's ‘ Three Perspectives on Photography ’ show at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 which turned her back towards the family : ‘ I have never been asked to produce work for use in a gallery before , and had no idea what to expect when I showed it . |
| 19 | Do n't think that releasing it through your local record shop is the answer — just ask DNA what happened when they tried it with their version of Tom 's Diner shortly before the A&M rep visited the shop . |
| 20 | Yeah I do n't suppose that happened when I pulled it out . |
| 21 | At the sound of footsteps the Captain looked around , and frowned when he saw it was Mum bearing down on him . |
| 22 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 23 | The door was closed when he reached it but it was not locked . |
| 24 | then vanished when she let it go . |
| 25 | It 's obviously a hell of a technique to master and somebody told me that , just to make things worse , you grinned when you did it ! |
| 26 | I 've got to do that twice a day which I did n't know we actually had to do when I started it . |
| 27 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 28 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 29 | It got a bit bent when I dropped it . |
| 30 | One of their most useful features was the thick layer of pure white fat with which they were coated when you took it out of the tin there was this layer of fat round the edge . |