Example sentences of "it when [pron] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can talk about it when we 're settled inside the Colombi in the warmth … ’ |
| 2 | However , we do n't have to beat ourselves up about it when we are criticized . |
| 3 | For instance , I could n't believe it when we were kept in the dark about the team until the hour before kick-off . |
| 4 | We were tooling up for it when we were sacked . |
| 5 | We used to play it when we were aged about ten or eleven . |
| 6 | ‘ They do n't show it when they are hurt or tired and Gary could n't believe how little Biggs had got left . ’ |
| 7 | With COSE being such a ‘ last orders ’ affair , they were n't given much time to consider it when they were asked for support , apparently by Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 8 | They were both thinking about it when they were hailed from across the street . |
| 9 | Certainly , while he is alive , Shaposhnikov the cappy man refuses to be parted from his headgear ; he grabs it when he determines to leave , and he drops it when he is persuaded to stay . |
| 10 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 11 | The PC stole it when he was sent to the man 's home after he collapsed and died , Sheffield Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | In the Dewhurst last year he could n't do it when he was let down — he needs good ground . ’ |
| 13 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 14 | ‘ He bought it when he was loaded , ’ Joey says . |
| 15 | One victim was glad of it when she was raped last year . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed . |
| 17 | I could n't believe it when I was sacked . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll have to get a photo of it when it 's finished , ’ Ian Jones said as he finished the meal of fish , salad and chips that Belinda had prepared as soon as she arrived . |
| 19 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 20 | The second meaning attached to the word ‘ love ’ is the one conferred on it when it is applied to the manifestation of the primitive uncontrolled mating urge as it applies to human beings , and also sometimes to animals . |
| 21 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 22 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 23 | I always welcome hearing it when it is delivered so lucidly from the mouth of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 24 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 25 | Instead he insisted that the truth of God is to be found in it when it is approached in the proper way — by one who is searching in awareness of his own need . |
| 26 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 27 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 28 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 29 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |