Example sentences of "[adv] when he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even telephoned Wexford to tell him about it , his elation subsiding somewhat when he heard the chief inspector had also found this out three hours before . |
| 2 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 3 | But he did not mind God saying it , especially when he felt the kindly grip on his shoulder . |
| 4 | So when he saw the 301 project it gave him the idea of using ultra-modern airframe and engine technology and aerodynamics to achieve the same magic numbers with a single turboprop instead of two kerosene-guzzling pure jets . |
| 5 | She was roused from this reverie seconds later when he gulped the last of the juice and said , ‘ I know what Faye 's ‘ few minutes ’ mean . |
| 6 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 7 | Gorphal picked up the parchment and raised one eyebrow slightly when he saw the familiar ideograms of the Golden Empire . |
| 8 | In an age when most politicians affect a drearier-than-thou respectability , Brown , even when he ran the Foreign Office in the late 1960s , was an unabashed publicity-seeker . |
| 9 | But a kid who got out not through sport but through The Word , and who would n't forget this blessing , even when he became the Big Man . |
| 10 | The composer 's father , Leopold , unwittingly started the rot over two centuries ago when he took the six-year-old Mozart to market , as it were , on the celebrated tour of Europe 's courts and palaces . |
| 11 | FitzAlan glanced over his shoulder , turning fully when he saw the ugly discolouration along her cheekbone and the narrow line of dried blood where she had been cut by a ring . |
| 12 | He apologised profusely for being five years late when he opened the annual fund-raising garden party for the hospice . |
| 13 | The historian Kirkpatrick was recalling an incident fourteen years earlier when he included the above in his 1751 treatise ‘ Reflections on the Causes that may retard Putrefaction of dead Bodies ’ . |
| 14 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 15 | Nothing , however , flew , and yet when he opened the closed hand , it was empty . |
| 16 | Look at the splendid sight , ’ he waved his hand , just as Mr Blackwell the owner appeared , but who almost disappeared again when he saw the vast crowd about to troop up and down his narrow staircase and crowded rooms . |