Example sentences of "when it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it fills fills the cistern fills up anyway ploomp through the whole house . |
| 2 | I was really pissed off because I was watching the U21 England match , and when it finished turned over during the ‘ adverts ’ . |
| 3 | Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering . |
| 4 | . All too often they discredit themselves by engaging in character assassination … and by their transparent acceptance of bad research when it happens to suit their case . ’ |
| 5 | Should the British Gas Corporation be attempting to boost its share of the UK energy market when it plans to import high cost foreign gas in order to achieve it ? |
| 6 | Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse ! |
| 7 | Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l . |
| 8 | When it had boiled , whistling with a tinny Woolworth sibillance , he warmed the pot-bellied black teapot , spooned in two piles of thick tarry Indian leaves , left them awhile as he had a scratch of the back , then poured the dark brown liquid into a plain white cup , with saucer , added milk from a bottle plus two sweetening spoonfuls of caster sugar . |
| 9 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 10 | Then , when it had grown dark , we would go out to join the paseo : |
| 11 | When it had grown older it did show a little interest in females and even deigned to mate with a few , though never with much enthusiasm . |
| 12 | He thought of something he had read once about Fielding , who had heard the watermen at Rotherhithe mocking his body when it had grown ugly with the dropsy . |
| 13 | Then when it had grown enough God brought the baby out and the mother took him in her arms . |
| 14 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 15 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 16 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 17 | They might also accept that some , if only few , among the many would grow ; and that when it had become operationally necessary or desirable a growing business could divide itself and in such a way that the divisions were suitable ‘ constituencies ’ for the democratic purposes of the co-operative . |
| 18 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 19 | He moved slowly , according to Nithard , " wanting to know which way things would go before he crossed the Alps " ; only when it had become clear that plenty of support would be forthcoming did he decide to claim " the whole empire " . |
| 20 | When it had beaten Cranborne junior School by three hundred runs , two Saturdays ago , he had linked arms with the headmaster and sung three verses of ‘ We Are the Champions ’ . |
| 21 | One hundred millilitre samples of simulated gastric juice ( USP formulation ) were then added to the test meal , the mixture was stirred thoroughly , and the resultant pH measured when it had stabilised after 10 minutes . |
| 22 | Now when it had had a general repair on it , there was a little plate put on it and er then i it w it was supposed to go out again for three years . |
| 23 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 24 | Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 . |
| 25 | The sound was a bit like an underground train at a distance , and there was a feeling of complete emptiness when it had gone . |
| 26 | Miss Jarman sniffed heavily , took another mouthful of port and when it had gone down said testily : ‘ We 've much to talk over y'know that . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh ! ’ said Bobbie , when it had gone . |
| 28 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 29 | When it had gone midnight Lowell knew she was n't coming . |
| 30 | When it had quieted down they fell to with their gavelocks and hammers . " |