Example sentences of "when it [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans were 11 under par when it finished they had also been six under in the Foursomes when they beat Gordon Brand and Sam Torrance . |
| 2 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 3 | B then sells the shares in A to a purchaser at a price equal to the value of the shares in A when it acquired them . |
| 4 | The record industry , of course , runs on hyperbole , and Virgin Records , like any other , had a press office feeding stories to the music or national press when it profited them to do so , and doing their utmost to keep the press at bay when it did n't . |
| 5 | Just when it seemed they were on the slide they nit Leicester with all they had , running in seven tries in a 37–6 victory . |
| 6 | None the less , this was a significant change from the days of the old CEB , which ( though hedged about by precise legal requirements on matters such as pricing ) had not been subject to government limits on finance ( choosing to raise its fixed-interest capital without government guarantee ) and had ignored ministerial requests when it felt they were unjustified ( being protected against the sanction acquired by the Minister in 1947 : the power of dismissal ) . |
| 7 | The paramilitaries felt , quite rightly as it turned out , that the politicians would use them when it suited them and then reject them once the threat of anarchy had achieved the desired end of bringing down Brian Faulkner . |
| 8 | The probability — it can be no more , given the absence of hard evidence — is that Zuwaya used superior government when it suited them , exercised it over others when they could , and did their utmost to escape it when it threatened their property and privilege . |
| 9 | There was a need for a trusting relationship between client and consultant , he agreed , but he was not prepared to rely on any headhunter completely , maintaining that they pretended to act according to codes of conduct only when it suited them . |
| 10 | To assume so would be seriously to underestimate the ability of civil servants to use the rhetoric of Keynesianism when it suited them and to ignore it when it did not . |
| 11 | The attempts of the Serbs to form a Christian coalition against the advancing Turks were as ineffective as those of the great Albanian leader , Skanderbeg , who , like Djuradj Branković , found that the would-be allies often exacted a heavy price for their help and were quite capable of deserting the cause when it suited them . |
| 12 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 13 | Even when the Treaty allowed for majority voting , thus hopefully preventing individual states from applying a veto , progress was frustrated in earlier days by French distaste for the principle and later the British were not averse to opposing majority voting when it suited them . |
| 14 | Both were accused by some contemporaries of pursuing their own interests , cynically exploiting their position , betraying the ruler when it suited them . |
| 15 | The pensioners claim the society did n't give them adequate warnings of the risks involved when it advised them how to invest their money . |
| 16 | Liverpool have always admitted they need Europe to pay their way and when it went they were left with highly paid players on long-term contracts — and the books did n't balance . |
| 17 | ( It had been the practice for the climber to go to the top and give the fox a spin , but in 1984 the committee got cold feet when it found they might not be fully insured for the climber and a separate insurance would cost too much . |
| 18 | My pair were purple and black , so that when it rained they dyed my socks , which did not impress my mother at all . |
| 19 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 20 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 21 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 22 | The wealth of the west depended absolutely on colonial domination , territorial expansion and the import of cheap commodities , including , when it required them , human beings , whether as slaves to the Caribbean and North America , indentured labour in the plantations of Malaysia and Africa or migrant workers to Europe . |
| 23 | The intimacy with which she and Luke explored each other 's mouths was possession of a kind , so wholly were they given to that long kiss , and when it ended they had to have it all over again , instantly , mouths colliding with an urgency which carried them dangerously beyond mere sensuality . |
| 24 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |