Example sentences of "when he came [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came upstairs to the bedroom he found Lily standing by the bed , and Eileen clutching her hand and moaning . |
| 2 | What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his . |
| 3 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 4 | Her father , when he came up before the Farnham Commission , had proved extraordinarily resilient , but he had still caved in , and then he had proved richly satisfying . |
| 5 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 6 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 7 | That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her . |
| 8 | I had one night of that , and when he came round in the morning , I told him . |
| 9 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 10 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 11 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
| 12 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 13 | When he came out into the bright white daylight he had a shock . |
| 14 | Charles had his own household to deal with his affairs which he had brought together when he came out of the forces . |
| 15 | When he came out of the forces at the end of the Second World War , Billy bought 260 acres ( 105 hectares ) to farm at Dudwa . |
| 16 | When he came out of the prison-camp at the end of the war , he believed Rosie would be waiting for him and when he could not find her , I think it broke his heart . ’ |
| 17 | She followed , trying to spot a public phone , and she had just caught sight of one at the corner of the building when he came out of the office , a key in his hand . |
| 18 | A red biplane from Crowfield had taken off and gone into a loop when he came out of the loop he could n't pull the plane level and he crashed into a field . |
| 19 | I am moving slowly now , as slowly as Summerchild moved when he came out of the darkness on that winter 's night . |
| 20 | His friend , Norman Prescott told Liverpool Crown Court that when he came out of the Horns Inn in Lowton Road , Golbourne , he later found Mr Maltby , 30 , lying on the ground and helped him up . |
| 21 | And when he came out of the army you know , after the war er he did n't want to go . |
| 22 | The tide had cleared the causeway , and it was perceptibly lighter , when he came out through the stone arch of the garden gate . |
| 23 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 24 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 25 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 26 | The first thing that Daniel did when he came back into the room was to remove the record and switch off the gramophone . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 28 | Christina was dressed in shorts and a loose cotton shirt when he came back into the room . |
| 29 | When he came back into the doorway of the room where she waited , he had a duffle coat over his arm , and was carrying a folding garden-bed with a rigid aluminium frame and a patterned canvas cover printed with brilliant sunflowers . |
| 30 | He was soothing someone , his voice gentle , and when he came back into the room there was an altogether different look on his face . |