Example sentences of "when it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Below-the-collarbone lengths tend to drag your face down when it 's already suffering from the effects of gravity .
2 now when it 's finally approved the highway and transportation from it will be corporated as a specific service provision within the name Suffolk .
3 Do n't forget that when it 's transcribed , when it 's professionally transcribed , all the names will be changed , so you 'll all be anonymous .
4 when it 's completely sorted out Chrissie erm oh I do n't really know what to say , she 's having this desk for Christmas
5 Tap tap tap all bloody day long , when it 's not singing or falling off its perch .
6 It 's just there to take the edge off things when it 's not settling on it 's own .
7 She shoves her nose in when it 's not wanted .
8 As Tom MacQueen himself once told me , banks will always lend you an umbrella , when it 's not raining .
9 Constant rain , and when it 's not raining it looks as if it 's about to .
10 It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call .
11 when it 's not changing .
12 ‘ We 'll keep this tucked away in a corner when it 's not needed , ’ he said .
13 Jackline in the , you have to do something with the comb when it 's not showing so you 've , what 's happened to the white ?
14 At times it 's a joy when it 's not happening !
15 The pack 's got to be comfortable when it 's fully loaded .
16 When it 's really flaming away and it 's the wood burning and not the Paraffin , then you put the lid back on loose , It may be that you 've over-filled , which is fine .
17 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing .
18 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing .
19 She started to go , and then turned back , saying cheerily , " Just think how nice it will be when it 's all finished with , " and then she actually added , " Well , I must go and feed my puss-puss now , or she 'll be ever so cross . "
20 I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
21 Ah , but when it 's actually done it 'll be connected wo n't it ?
22 But it 's alright just you know knowing about that , but when it 's actually going to happen to you , it 's something totally different .
23 We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two .
24 It 's hardly a policy to say that they 're stating we 're intending to return the Trust to N H S when it 's never left the N H S in the first place .
25 ‘ We both know what we can do for each other , so why all this frantic resistance , when it 's obviously fraying your nerves ?
26 What happens when it 's absolutely stopped ?
27 The gesture is likely to be surrounded by much ballyhoo when it is officially announced in April .
28 When it is officially opened next month by King Juan Carlos , it will launch ‘ Any Miró ’ , the season of activities commemorating the centenary of the artist 's birth and culminating in a major survey of his art being organised by the Joan Miró Foundation , Barcelona and the Museum of Modern Art , New York .
29 But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent .
30 With most designs of planting baskets , a hessian or foam liner is required to retain the compost when it is eventually placed in the pond .
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