Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] when it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you could toss a coin between them when it comes to judging the difference . ’ |
| 2 | It 's an N for me when it goes back . |
| 3 | However , it is important for the designer to be aware of the nature and extent of the possibilities that are in principle available so that he may be able to exploit some of them when it seems appropriate . |
| 4 | But it must know what it aims to achieve and what will be demanded of it when it sends in its peacekeepers . |
| 5 | Explain what 's in your mind and ask whether they 'd be interested in helping start it or being a part of it when it gets going . |
| 6 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 7 | However , as is generally the case with most benefits hard won from the state , once implemented the recipients unite in defence of it when it appears to be under threat . |
| 8 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 9 | They 'll be able to hide under it when it rains . |
| 10 | The next time it relents , I pull even harder and feel pleased with myself when it comes completely clear of the raft . |
| 11 | Discourse treats the rules of grammar as a resource , conforming to them when it needs to , but departing from them when it does not . |
| 12 | If you have ham reception , you might get an advance warning of trouble from someone directly involved in it when it happens . |
| 13 | Is it , nevertheless , true that there are no limits upon the power of Parliament to pass laws , and no controls upon it when it does so ? |
| 14 | But it tends to gloss over them when it draws on mainstream psychology . |
| 15 | Discourse treats the rules of grammar as a resource , conforming to them when it needs to , but departing from them when it does not . |
| 16 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 17 | No one has come near to me when it comes to boxing skills , and that 's what I 'm interested in . |
| 18 | I see even our daughter is expendable to you when it comes to safeguarding those bloody royalties . ’ |
| 19 | To this end each transput device has an associated one-bit register , which is cleared as an operation starts and is set to one when it terminates ; an instruction is provided to read this register , and thus the programmer can establish when a transput operation is complete . |
| 20 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 21 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 22 | So a lot of it 's going to go through the big pipe and then what happens to it when it 's come through the , the , these three pipes ? |
| 23 | Yeah you know you can buy stuff to put on it when it 's dried up . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the police are left largely to themselves when it comes to making sure that the Act is actually followed . |
| 25 | That is , it is open to us to deliberate about the light that this fact throws on the person 's character ; but deliberation is not open to us when it comes to parsing the sentence . |
| 26 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 27 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 28 | They will expect to be dealt a perfect bridge hand from time to time , and will scarcely trouble to write home about it when it happens . |
| 29 | I said we 'll worry about it when it comes ! |
| 30 | I think in , in shorthand terms the best thing to do is to regard the UCCA form as a mirror , and to look at it when it 's completed and say , ‘ This is the picture of me . ’ |