Example sentences of "when it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 2 | But when it come to you , master Conroy , and you hardly out of short trousers … ’ |
| 3 | Blofeld is not alone when it come to the Josef Stalin Caring Employer Award . |
| 4 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 5 | Now when it come to wars , governments are funny |
| 6 | ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’ |
| 7 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 8 | A design for a tapestry by Rubens set a record when it sold for £748,000 . |
| 9 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 10 | A fire painting by Yves Klein ( lot 65 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) attracted the session 's highest price when it sold to a telephone bidder for £75,000 . |
| 11 | ‘ Maria Callas No. 4 ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 47 , est. $200–250,000 ) , an explosive abstract composition painted by Julian Schnabel on a large sheet of dark red velvet in 1982 , shared an auction record for the artist 's work when it sold to New York property developer , Harry Macklowe and his wife Linda , for $290,000 ( £161,100 ) . |
| 12 | A middle scale version of Rodin 's ‘ La Defense ( The Call to Arms ) ’ ( lot 16 , est. $200,000–300,000 ) attracted the sale 's highest bid of $310,000 ( £181,000 ) when it sold to an American institution , while Utrillo 's pretty winter scene , ‘ Rue à Poissy ’ ( lot 131 , est. $60,000–80,000 ) was the sale 's most expensive painting , bought by an American dealer for $100,000 ( £58,000 ) . |
| 13 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 14 | When it happens with a train it 's it 's one hundred percent you 're absolutely stuck with the thing . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a shock when it happens to you . |
| 16 | The other conclusion is that , when it happens to you , it is an overpowering sensation . |
| 17 | This is enviable good luck and financially profitable , and when it happens to a writer whose standards are not thereby lowered only prigs will think less of the work . |
| 18 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 19 | There 's no connection between the thought beforehand , and when it happens to you something different happens . |
| 20 | The higher-level activity itself can , of course , become automatised , and whereas in the case of skills such as riding a bicycle or tying shoelaces this is advantageous , when it happens to writing or reading the consequences are unfortunate . |
| 21 | Can I just comment on the lady saying a minor crime , I do n't think any crime is minor when it happens to you |
| 22 | When it happens to you it 's totally different . |
| 23 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 24 | When it happens at this stage many mothers receive little sympathy because there may be no visible signs of loss . |
| 25 | But when it happens in our waking life , we tend to dismiss such incidents as meaningless . |
| 26 | We seem to resent this when it happens in English — when we leave the ‘ t ’ off the end of ‘ hot ’ , for example , and replace it with a ‘ glottal stop ’ ( try saying ‘ hot milk ’ three times quickly ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I had got to the front door when it exploded on top of me . |
| 28 | The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 . |
| 29 | But it must know what it aims to achieve and what will be demanded of it when it sends in its peacekeepers . |
| 30 | Even in that bitter weather the plant was beginning to blossom and , when it bloomed at Christmas , the abbot as was customary would send a cutting to the King . |