Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
| 2 | It also noted that the master of the Ocean Ranger was not sufficiently prepared when he took over two weeks before the disaster , and that the operating manual contained too little information on how to use the manual backup to the ballast system . |
| 3 | No I was sorry I missed him when he came over last year . |
| 4 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 5 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 6 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 7 | The House passed this by 416–0 , and the Senate by 88–2 , and Johnson constantly used it later when he stepped up American involvement in Vietnam . |
| 8 | ‘ When he brought in wee pillbox hats , I suggested he add some graphics on top . ’ |
| 9 | When he turns up next week his trousers 'll be about three inches above his shoes . |
| 10 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 11 | So when he rang up that evening to tell me he was taking a fortnight 's leave towards the end of June and what about a trip north as soon as term ended , I did feel as if the fates themselves had taken a hand . |
| 12 | The Noble Viscount , Lord Whitelaw put it I thought extremely well , extremely persuasively , when he spoke on second reading on this question , not of the Chairman , but of the five Home Office nominees . |
| 13 | When he arrived back last night he was so happy about his love and wanting to marry Maria Luisa I could n't burst his bubble so soon . |
| 14 | To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago . |
| 15 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 16 | He had forgotten all about Gina , as he usually did when he chatted up pretty girls . |
| 17 | John failed dismally , however , when he set up any business with a partner . |
| 18 | As Eva had known , the location of the flat would always be a draw for Charlie , and when he turned up one evening to eat and sleep I said , ‘ Let's go to the Nashville . ’ |
| 19 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |