Example sentences of "[adv] when he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when he had a rope in his hand was he cruel . |
| 2 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 3 | Cutting the grass , especially when he used a hand mower on the trickier Patches , was best . |
| 4 | There was a poet I met , quite young , who had n't ever got his poems published while he was alive , so when he discovered a computer in the office where he 'd worked , he fed all sorts of things into it which were n't supposed to be there . |
| 5 | Rupert Moon started and finished the first , bagging his first Test try in only his second international , while new cap Simon Hill went one better when he claimed a kick and chase try after only seven minutes on the international stage . |
| 6 | The engine was less than five yards away when he felt a hand shove him hard in the small of the back . |
| 7 | And in the houses of fashionable people , men sometimes turned away when he entered a room . |
| 8 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 9 | She moved away when he sat near her , went into town to change her library books instead of going home when he invented a string of excuses that would enable him to walk in her direction . |
| 10 | However , with his health failing , he had his last drive in the French Grand Prix two years later when he shared a Maserati with Luigi Villoresi . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was an hour later when he heard a voice shouting on the hillside below . |
| 12 | Wallace was great even when he took a knock early in the 2nd half ( Strandli should have been on sooner ) . |
| 13 | Even when he waves a noose , he holds it with a velvet glove . |
| 14 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 15 | Andrew Stavanger would never touch it — even when he needed a bank overdraft , and to use the deposit would have kept down interest charges , he preferred to keep it intact . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , happiness is difficult to find , and it seems man is unable to remain happy even when he finds a way of living that seems to suit his psychic constitution — a combination of biological givens , and the consequences of the individual 's resolution of his conflicts during his personal development . |
| 17 | They were all behind him , shouting ‘ get in ’ even when he missed a putt by six feet . |
| 18 | Dr Siddiqui caused a furore in Manchester two months ago when he asked a meeting of Muslim activists to raise their hands in agreement with the death sentence imposed on Mr Rushdie by the late Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 19 | Walsh — whose ‘ bad boy ’ reputation began five years ago when he received a record nine-match ban after an incident that left Shrewsbury 's David Geddis with a broken jaw — returns today for the visit of Brentford . |
| 20 | Turner nearly became Mr Big at Barnet a couple of years ago when he fronted a consortium negotiating to buy the club from chairman Stan Flash-man . |
| 21 | The nearest he has come to an England place since was three years ago when he broke a thumb within 24 hours of being selected to face India . |
| 22 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
| 23 | Corbett was almost there when he heard a voice call out . |
| 24 | Then when he became a supporter of the organic movement — ironically through sitting on the Select Committee on agriculture that held an enquiry into the effects on people 's health linked to the use of pesticides — it was all too much for the farming press and his local party workers . |
| 25 | And then when he got a bit more money we thought he were too big for his shoes . |
| 26 | If I tell you that Maureen actually had to give him the kiss of life twice when he caught a chill , you 'll appreciate why we went to such lengths to keep him warm . |
| 27 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |
| 28 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 29 | Conservative MPs cheered when he entered the chamber of the Commons yesterday and cheered again when he borrowed a phrase from Harold Macmillan to dismiss Norman Lamont 's vitriolic attack on his governance as a ‘ little local difficulty . ’ |
| 30 | Whatever the truth behind that story , in July 1990 Rob Lowe showed the world that he had the same kind of concerns and cares as everyone else when he made a surprise and last-minute appearance at the Knebworth Charity Festival where Elton John and Phil Collins were among the artists performing . |