Example sentences of "[conj] when [pers pn] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 2 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 3 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 4 | ‘ Only that the house agents called it that when they advertised it . |
| 5 | Did they say owt and that when you ordered it , did it say that you were n't satisfied er that you 'd have postage to pay ? |
| 6 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 7 | N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands . |
| 8 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 9 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 10 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 11 | What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared . |
| 12 | Brilliant okay now here I started off with something I do n't know what it was but I know that when I differentiated it I finished up with X |
| 13 | I asked that when I bought it of course . |
| 14 | What frustrated his old fans was that when he went it more or less alone , as on 1982 's masterfully stark and turbulent Music For A New Society , Cale produced what he also regards as his best album , ‘ because all the old pain was right there . ’ |
| 15 | They both knew that no timer could be relied upon to be that sensitive , that when he activated it , the chances were reasonable that it would detonate instantly — before he could throw it . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , use mine , ’ I said blithely — which , of course , he did , and put the property in his own name so that when he sold it out from under me there would be no legal come-back ! |
| 17 | Huy hoped that when he died it would be in the desert or on the river , so that the vultures or the crocodiles would take him . |
| 18 | He 's going on about it , even like , he told me that when he dreamt it , |
| 19 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 20 | She had imagined , in her ingenuous way that when she married it would be a combination of that quayside romance with the close sexual intensity she had known with Martin Dickenson in the cabin . |
| 21 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 22 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |
| 23 | She carefully left enough of her father 's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple . |
| 24 | Whenever the students thought they were evaluating the work of a man , they assessed it as far more impressive than when they thought it was authored by a woman , whose efforts were labelled mediocre . |
| 25 | ‘ That makes it much more difficult , you know , than when I thought it was only me , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 27 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 28 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 29 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 30 | The Court felt that , ‘ Such information can be of tremendous historical value in demonstrating what agency personnel were involved in making a particular policy decision and what officials knew and when they knew it . ’ |