Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He knocked softly on her door and his face was still drawn when she opened it . |
| 6 | Catriona had already laughed when she realised it was n't a joke . |
| 7 | The door was closed when he reached it but it was not locked . |
| 8 | It got a bit bent when I dropped it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break . |
| 11 | He said members of the London-based Order had once lived at the convent but numbers had reduced when he bought it . |
| 12 | Mr Frizzell , before the unfortunate episode with Betty , had been prevailed upon to donate four old , though still serviceable , tyres ; and finally the great day arrived when he backed it slowly out of the garage and drove it round to his own home in the vague hope that his mother might like to see it . |
| 13 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 14 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 15 | And from a corner the visitor 's Leach saved full length , and Mark West should have scored when he lobbed it back , but Peak headed behind for a corner , this was all very very hectic indeed . |
| 16 | I got charged when I did it in Newmarket . |
| 17 | The old dictator , General Augusto Pinochet , called a referendum that he hoped would confirm him in power , and was baffled when he lost it . |
| 18 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |
| 19 | The ideas which I had conceived of that noble university were realised when I saw it … |
| 20 | It also helps to know what the fish was labelled when you bought it . |