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Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] when " in BNC.

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1	It effectively ended when a new Legislative Assembly was formed following the November state elections .
2	Following this move of the ducal seat the palazzo fell into disuse and disrepair , a state from which it only recovered when the Spanish governors took it over many years later .
3	Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction .
4	The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it .
5	It only worked when he was stationary , but that was often .
6	She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes .
7	‘ It just happened when we were half asleep .
8	But it soon vanished when I mentioned my wish to visit Manu National Park .
9	It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees .
10	‘ Thanks , ’ he said dryly , his face taking on the blank expression it usually had when he was annoyed .
11	Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot .
12	She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’
13	Nevertheless , the French performed a volte-face worthy of their government 's foreign policy habits , and gave the cardiac arrest generation nouvelle cuisine , or cuisine minceur and then cuisine naturelle , as it quickly became when the first fanatical asceticism mellowed .
14	His heart sank the way it always did when she left him .
15	I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed .
16	The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it .
17	Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man .
18	It tinkled furiously , as it always did when he became agitated for any reason .
19	It always happened when her allowance arrived .
20	The term primitive , however , no longer has the pejorative connotation in anthropological , and socio-philosophical writings , that it once had when the evolutionary theory prevailed .
21	The general 's effective rejection of the peace charter , which has yet to be formally presented by the 31 Christian and 31 Muslim deputies gathered in Taif for the past two weeks , risks plunging Lebanon into a new cycle of the violence from which it temporarily escaped when the Arab League brokered a ceasefire on 23 September .
22	Yet it nearly stopped when it started .
23	It probably began when jackals huddled round his camp-fire to snatch bones and scraps of food .
24	It then rested when finances ran out before resuming in 1790 and reaching its intended link with the Aire and Calder and Don navigations in 1816 and thence to the Humber estuary .
25	It occasionally happened when he started an improvisation .
26	But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it .