Example sentences of "[verb] when it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we know how to , how to work when it 's add . |
| 2 | There is , however , a danger here that older people will be infantilised when it is implied that they are no longer competent and able to discriminate for themselves . |
| 3 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 4 | The crash above their heads had come when it was lifted bodily and flung across the deck . |
| 5 | Troll flesh can not regenerate when it is burned . |
| 6 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 7 | Two days after its signing , Joyce went to England and joined the army , but was discharged when it was discovered that he was only sixteen . |
| 8 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | She walked up and down the street , calling Griselda , though the cat had never been known to come when it was called . |
| 10 | The flight from Bangkok was only minutes from landing when it was turned away because of a monsoon . |
| 11 | What judgements could the audience be asked to pass when it is played back ? |
| 12 | This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors . |
| 13 | Not only has Trifolium repens a guerrilla growth form but its guerrilla character is exaggerated when it is growing with grasses ; its branching then tends to be reduced and growth is concentrated in linear extension . |
| 14 | But this question was quickly resolved when it was discovered that Coggan much preferred moving to York and not London . |
| 15 | The true significance of witchcraft is only disclosed when it is set within its full configuration of mystical forces ; the same applies to ancestor cults . |
| 16 | Springfield Mill , east of the town centre , dates from the year of Trafalgar , and is said to be the earliest paper mill powered by steam , having a Boulton and Watt beam engine installed when it was opened for business . |
| 17 | it remains to be seen what figures are included when it is submitted to the Secretary of State and what view he takes on that . |
| 18 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 19 | This was agreed in February 1906 and at the same time the order for a further 14 cars of the smaller type , to work the Sutton route , was cancelled when it was realized that the fifteen ‘ Croydon & District ’ cars dumped on the site of Mitcham Road Depôt ( Aurelia Road ) would have to be taken into the South Metropolitan fleet . |
| 20 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 21 | His left leg was almost severed when it was caught in the whirling blade of a tree stump cutter . |
| 22 | By April the sense of crisis among the Six receded when it was agreed to quicken the pace towards a customs union still further . |
| 23 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 24 | He says when it was brought in it was salivating and aggressive . |
| 25 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 26 | This theory was threatened when it was discovered that many substances gain weight after combustion . |
| 27 | Now what happens when it 's going faster and faster , you can graph it , and you can see it going right up . |
| 28 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 29 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 30 | ‘ If it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . ’ |