Example sentences of "when it [adv] [verb] " 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 | So often , when a company introduces a new model , there follows a wave of disappointment when it invariably fails to break any new ground . |
| 4 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When it eventually dawned on Liza that she must be pregnant , she began to panic . |
| 9 | She steeled herself against him , ready for that devastating move when it eventually came . |
| 10 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 11 | What was the feeling in the lodge when it eventually happened . |
| 12 | The sources , who have seen Viking in action , say that the thing works , and may even perform ahead of expectations when it eventually sees the light of day . |
| 13 | went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him . |
| 14 | Moreover , the achievement of equal retirement ages , when it eventually comes , though significant , would do nothing to remove the tyranny of fixed age retirement for both women and men . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When it eventually reveals the secret of life itself , or something approaching it , it will be , you can rest assured , passed on to the ordinary people out there . |
| 17 | Fern Lodge , Highgate , was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is a time of abject misery , when it just seems impossible to face the consequences of the loss that has occurred . |
| 21 | when it just comes down to it and I just do n't know where to start |
| 22 | What emerged , aside from the technology , which has been widely previewed ( summary inside ) , was a seminal move by USL president Roel Pieper to unify the industry around a desktop Unix to challenge Microsoft Corp NT — threatening to sweep the boards when it finally arrives . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then Damian said bitingly , ‘ When it finally happens between us , Rachel , it wo n't be a rape , it 'll be a landslide and you know it ! ’ |
| 29 | The Collective State Presidency failed to convene in Brioni on July 15 or 16 due to the refusal of the Serbian block to participate ; when it finally met in Belgrade on July 18 with all members present as well as the Federal Prime Minister ( Ante Markovic ) and the Ministers of Defence , Interior and Foreign Affairs , a surprise agreement was reached ( with Mesic voting against and the Bosnian representative abstaining ) to begin immediately to pull all troops out of Slovenia within three months to the neighbouring republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia . |
| 30 | The vagaries of the stream are not ended when it finally debouches into the silent pool at the bottom of Alum Pot . |