Example sentences of "when he [vb -s] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tillich recognizes the former point , when he refers to the mystical approach to nature , which is to be found in the works of St Francis of Assisi , Protestant mystics and German Romantics , and states that they illustrate an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity . |
| 2 | But when he gets to the other side of the crossroads it 's not Rose , after all . |
| 3 | So I know a guy for example who , when he gets his Visa bill say the last third of the month , he puts it into the envelope , and makes a note in the diary on say the twenty first , to pay the Visa bill , and when he gets to the twenty first , lo and behold , he knows where the Visa bill is and he has to pay it . |
| 4 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 5 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 6 | Eccleshall appears to be on stronger ground when he looks to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for evidence of libertarian Conservatism . |