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

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1 I knew that when I sold it to you . ’
2 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 .
3 So I er when I said it to him , on top I made a good job I says .
4 When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’
5 I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine !
6 ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’
7 so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ?
8 I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own .
9 One of my sisters got quite hysterical when I did it to her , so Mum had to give her a good shaking !
10 It 's one of these things that sound much more complicated than when I explain it to you .
11 Dr Burstead — when I gave it to him he put it in his mouth and bit it to see that it was a good 'un .
12 At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant .
13 ‘ But when I mentioned it to Ross , during the flight from America , he was dead against the idea .
14 When you put it to Sole that his approach to captaincy is more intellectual than gung-ho he laughs : ‘ Well , I am not a Finlay Calder by any means .
15 I deliberately did n't see the play because there 's always a danger in getting too obsessed with what was on the stage and feeling you must n't tamper with it when you translate it to film .
16 These er return labels were n't in that when you lent it to John , to take over there ?
17 F er your bodywork was er it was cut off You measured and cut it off with your er at the at the mill , and er , of course , then when it got to the er you cut it You know , when you got it to the er your waggon , you put it in and , of course , then you 'd got to bore all the holes by hand for the bolts to go in , to fit in .
18 ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now .
19 When you say it to me , I believe you .
20 Wh when you do it to sort of fairly accurately like that , it six .
21 " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing .
22 " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . "
23 The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic .
24 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
25 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
26 I mean when you compare it to the new one in the which is awful .
27 Before Jennifer 's arrival he had left Hill House early in the morning and had returned home late ; now he sat over his breakfast in order to ogle her when she brought it to him , and came home early — and sober — to mooch about the house and engage her in conversation while she swept the rooms or tended the roast .
28 The moon was sailing in the sky , making her woebegone grimace , when she brought it to her , and Zenaida was torn , you could tell , between disappointment that brave Carmellina had fulfilled the impossible ordeal she had set her , and pleasure in the work of the dress itself , the fine weave , the dashing shape , the fall of the supple cloth , the nimble stitching .
29 And when she brought it to him , he did not take it from her , but only felt in the deep pocket stitched into its lining , and drew out a parchment rolled and sealed , which he reached across the table and laid before Iago Vaughan .
30 You know I thought when she explained it to me , not like some people think it 's dirty , I thought it was wonderful .
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