Example sentences of "when he reached the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |
| 2 | First time he got on a tractor — when he reached the end of the field he shouted ‘ Whoa ! ’ ’ |
| 3 | When he reached the stone he stood looking at it , shifting it with his foot . |
| 4 | When he reached the house , he leant his bike against the fence and opened the gate . |
| 5 | When he reached the first breakwater , Simon turned and waved . |
| 6 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 7 | Did the runner bringing the news from the battlefield run straight past him when he reached the town ? |
| 8 | When he reached the ground he stood facing the trunk , unwilling to turn round . |
| 9 | That satisfaction would smartly have evaporated when he reached the clearing and found me gone . |
| 10 | When he reached the tent he crawled in ; he has not come out again . |
| 11 | When he reached the shelf he discovered most of the books had disappeared . |
| 12 | When he reached the end and put the paper back in his pocket , the audience shifted and swayed slightly , making him realize just how raptly they had listened to him . |
| 13 | When he reached the spot where he thought he had seen her she had gone . |
| 14 | When he reached the empty space in which I was standing I saw that he had drawn an automatic . |
| 15 | He did not pause to rest when he reached the next hedge , but continued on , driving his exhausted body ruthlessly onwards . |
| 16 | When he reached the door he pulled on the bell and waited . |
| 17 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 18 | When he reached the fighting , he charged in amongst the Dragoons , shouting loudly and urging his companions to follow him . |
| 19 | Marian was already waiting for him when he reached the head of the track . |
| 20 | When he reached the place where the road forked the sky had already changed from palest blue to light emerald . |
| 21 | As Jack approached the Monument , the atmosphere grew colder , and when he reached the two silent figures at the |
| 22 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 23 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 24 | When he reached the ticket hall the heat was so fierce the water from his hose turned to steam before it reached the fire . |
| 25 | He did n't stop even when he reached the hole . |
| 26 | ROBIN Reid guaranteed himself at least a bronze medal when he reached the semi-finals in boxing 's light-middleweight division . |
| 27 | ‘ It makes me a lot faster around the court , ’ says the 20-year-old who was unseeded when he reached the semi-final of The Championships two years ago . |
| 28 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 29 | When he reached the police station , he had second thoughts and turned himself in , admitting that he was probably over the drink-drive limit . |
| 30 | Graham had already budgeted on being in Martigny ten minutes prior to the train 's scheduled arrival so when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill . |