Example sentences of "[vb past] when he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
| 2 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
| 3 | The first hint of a problem came when he developed a small ulcer on his tongue in 1990 . |
| 4 | Even his baptismal and family names have been lost through the monastic practice of using , together with his birthplace , the professional name he assumed when he became an Observant Hieronymite friar in San Isidoro , near Seville . |
| 5 | An inquest 's been hearing how a teenage joyrider died when he crashed a stolen car while trying to escape from police . |
| 6 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 7 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 8 | Despite himself , Bishop shivered when he heard the flat intonation of Tiw Heimdall 's voice . |
| 9 | So it did when he introduced a two-handed representation , Jan Leeming and myself . |
| 10 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 11 | Kenneth smiled when he saw the hand-painted sign at the outskirts of the village that said , ‘ Thank You . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 13 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 14 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 15 | A woman fainted when he spoke the previous day , the hall was so crowded . |