Example sentences of "it [adv] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they do not see , of course , are the tears at the sheer frustration of it all when it hits home at two in the morning . |
| 2 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 3 | Leroy Brown , at one stage a prodigious sprinter , reflected on a career which never materialized : ‘ I just do n't know why I could n't put it together when it mattered . |
| 4 | Well did the Book of Common prayer put it succinctly when it spoke of the relationship between us and God : ‘ Whose service is perfect freedom ’ . |
| 5 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 6 | I puzzled over this little problem for years , right into old age in fact , picking it up when it happened to float into my mind , and putting it down again unsolved . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , they love it here when it rains ’ , Callahan muttered . |
| 8 | This thing of subtracting , we carry on doing it even when it goes negative . |
| 9 | But even at his most confused , the essence of Maurice was still there , and we loved him for it even when it drove us spare . |
| 10 | I will do it even when it snows and when it rains . |
| 11 | She had wondered about it briefly when it seemed certain that her mother and Michele 's father had known each other in the past . |
| 12 | My advice is to locate it when it is bright , and then memorize its position so that you can find it again when it has faded . |