Example sentences of "that when [pers pn] [vb past] 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 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 .
3 ‘ Only that the house agents called it that when they advertised it .
4 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 ?
5 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 . "
6 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 .
7 And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better .
8 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 .
9 I knew that when I sold it to you . ’
10 What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared .
11 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
12 I asked that when I bought it of course .
13 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 . ’
14 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 .
15 ‘ 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 !
16 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 .
17 He 's going on about it , even like , he told me that when he dreamt it ,
18 There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again .
19 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 .
20 She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page .
21 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 . ’
22 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 .
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