Example sentences of "when he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 2 | When he first came to Chilton , Harry Dodson recalls that the pest controller in the glasshouses was a large old toad . |
| 3 | Leonard was actually looking in a shop window when he first saw them , noticing Marianne — naturally — first ! |
| 4 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 5 | Misty-eyed when he first appeared he looked practically fog-bound during the closing numbers . |
| 6 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 7 | When he first started selling peg trousers he developed a stance to show them off He 'd bend his legs at the knee and stand half turned . |
| 8 | When he first came , he had worked on various building sites . |
| 9 | His interest began when he first opened the garden and found that many visitors wanted seeds from his 10 aquilegias . |
| 10 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 11 | He was an attorney at law who , when he first began his practice , bragged , according to Gilbert 's Parochial History of Cornwall , ‘ that he would get an estate by the law one way or the other . |
| 12 | He removed them when he first came since they would not shut because , as old Mr Abbott the gardener explained , ‘ not once but twice Mr Betjeman reversed out of the garage without opening the doors , and when charged with stupidity , made the excuse that on both occasions he was wearing a sou'wester . ’ |
| 13 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
| 14 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 15 | When he first raised the idea with Mikhail Gorbachev and Edward Shevardnadze in 1987 , he got little response . |
| 16 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 17 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 18 | Galilee , the big tree-fringed pond by the pit where his father worked , a stretch of water ruffled by the wind when he first saw it . |
| 19 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 20 | But in 1483 Richard of Gloucester , later Richard III , is supposed to have been in residence when he first heard news of the murder of the princes in the Tower . |
| 21 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 22 | As the leader of the Romantic school of young French painters , Bonington took London by storm when he first exhibited at the British Institution in 1826 . |
| 23 | No one lucky enough to be at Newmarket when he first appeared can possibly forget it . |
| 24 | In Parkhead John McGuire watched the black and white screen with a tense fascination that would not have been unfamiliar to Christopher Columbus when he first saw the West Indies float over the Caribbean horizon . |
| 25 | Charles Darwin , perhaps the greatest field naturalist of all time , was impressed by this when he first encountered the tropics during his journey in HMS Beagle in the 1830s . |
| 26 | He said she was an avant-garde feminist who — when he first met her — was proud of the fact that she already had a child whose father no one knew . |
| 27 | When he first appeared he was known briefly as The Broken , referring to his christian name , and to the way he looked so grave , even grief-stricken sometimes in an odd way . |
| 28 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 29 | If the patient is walking , you have to be careful that the path is not slippery at all when he first goes outside . |
| 30 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |