Example sentences of "when it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good old television recording once again came in useful as a reminder of the true reality when it clearly showed a presentable handover of the garment . |
| 2 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 3 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 4 | Having emerged from this complex background , the book evinced an eccentric fidelity to Ritschl 's advice , when it duly appeared after the suggested " couple of years " . |
| 5 | There is no risk , thank God , of Andrew Lloyd Webber wanting to enter the Commons , a place of meagre payment , but the Guardian created a fearful frisson when it wickedly asked Bernard Manning to fill the first of its ‘ How I am Voting ’ slots , and drew a mouthful of club-night nastiness . |
| 6 | During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey . |
| 7 | When it eventually dawned on Liza that she must be pregnant , she began to panic . |
| 8 | She steeled herself against him , ready for that devastating move when it eventually came . |
| 9 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 10 | What was the feeling in the lodge when it eventually happened . |
| 11 | went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him . |
| 12 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 13 | Fern Lodge , Highgate , was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe . |
| 14 | The artists with whom his gallery was closely involved are Andy Goldsworthy , Hamish Fulton , Roger Ackling and Ian Hamilton Finlay , whose Wild Hawthorne Press material he presented at the Fruitmarket when it briefly reopened for last year 's Edinburgh Festival . |
| 15 | and if you leave a message it will be dealt with and people do leave a message , whereas before when it just said I 'm sorry I 'm not available they did n't they just put the phone down . |
| 16 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 17 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |
| 18 | Grainne had known that when it finally came to it , she would be afraid — for I have never known anyone other than Fergus , and with Fergus it was so natural and so sweet — but she had not expected this sudden rush of tenderness . |
| 19 | So much so , that I missed my stop when it finally came round and I ended up stranded in a place called Parliament Hill Fields , where you ca n't get a bus or a tube anywhere except back to the BBC . |
| 20 | One of them , for example , that we 'll be looking next term , Freud 's biography , co-written with Bullitt , on Woodrow Wilson , was called , in one of the major reviews , when it finally came out in nineteen sixty seven , the kind of thing that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 21 | Then , when it finally dropped from exhaustion , it was killed . |
| 22 | The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view . |
| 23 | When it finally ratified the Protocol in 1975 the USA further expressed its ‘ understanding ’ that the Protocol does not cover control agents and herbicides , although for itself the USA agreed to limit their use . |
| 24 | While they waited , Jean popped into her local Midland Bank to ask if they would change the money when it finally arrived . |
| 25 | Franco 's concern not to risk backing the wrong side in a European war was also reflected in Spain 's official position with regard to the conflict when it finally erupted in the autumn of 1939 . |
| 26 | I assumed a sphinx-like smile , as though my present situation were part of a long-term career strategy which would yield staggering results when it finally matured . |
| 27 | It looked no larger than a pin when it finally hit the surface without a sound , and disappeared . |
| 28 | Dry-eyed , I acquiesced when it finally hit the bag of clothes for ‘ Poor Peggy , she 's you-know-what-again , God help her ’ , and I 'm delighted to say I have n't given it a thought since . |
| 29 | In fact , Easy Rider was rather slow to catch on but when it finally caught the attention of the counter-culture , even the establishment newspapers and magazines began to offer up praise . |
| 30 | When it finally did become self-replicating , this was a device evolved by the mineral crystal ‘ genes ’ to improve the efficiency of manufacture of the RNA ( or similar molecule ) . |