Example sentences of "[that] when [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 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
2 Sorry I should n't be saying because I was Incidentally , I did n't say to you that when they transcribe it , if a name comes up they , they just write erm do you want a cup of tea , name ?
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 And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize .
6 May , may I say that when you dictate it , you did it all .
7 ‘ You realise that when you tell it like it is , they ham it up for you anyway . ’
8 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 ?
9 Erm so really you tell me which jobs you 're gon na send reports out on , a and erm that you would like that particular field sorting out , and I will get Ken and Amanda and Kerry to er t to get something in there , so that when you pull it off erm you 're happy with it or we can then edit it .
10 And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it .
11 Or that avocado is the only fat-containing fruit and that when you order it with an oily dressing , or with prawns in mayonnaise dressing , you are ordering one of the most fattening first courses of all ?
12 Then , for the main course , she chose the steak-and-kidney pie , dripping gravy down her horrible blouse ( it 's the sort of blouse that when you see it in the shop you wonder how the shopkeeper intends to dispose of it because no one in their right mind would ever dream of swapping cash for it ) .
13 Since it will not breed in this form , it has no sexual equipment ; since it has no cause to attract a mate , it needs no mechanisms to send out call-signals whether by sight , smell or sound , nor any sense organs to receive such messages ; and as its parents have gone to considerable trouble to ensure that when it hatches it is surrounded by the great quantities of the particular food it requires , it needs no wings .
14 So you see , that needs to go in there so that when it prints it out again , we come and ask you
15 I think she wants to get something sorted so that when it comes it 's open for her .
16 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 . "
17 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 .
18 And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better .
19 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 .
20 Only modern Rome , anyway ; Constanza wo n't admit that when I point it out .
21 I knew that when I sold it to you . ’
22 Oh I 'll believe that when I see it .
23 ‘ They said we would get an extra hour in October when the clocks go back but I 'll believe that when I see it . ’
24 What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared .
25 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
26 I 've now rinsed that in there so it 's so dilute now that when I pour it away hardly a trace of it there .
27 I asked that when I bought it of course .
28 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 . ’
29 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 .
30 ‘ 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 !
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