Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurice , in the way of business , knew too many , rather than too few , people , but when he imagined living without friends , he sat down with the whisky in the dark . |
| 2 | So he did , and sick indeed he was , for Brother Richard found him grey and shaking on his bed , when he failed to attend at Compline . |
| 3 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
| 4 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 5 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
| 6 | He had had Havvie Blaine investigated when he had heard of Sally-Anne 's engagement to him , and her rejection of him had saved him , and her , a deal of pain and trouble . |
| 7 | Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know . |
| 8 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
| 9 | Except when he had to go to sea . |
| 10 | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way . |
| 11 | When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men . |
| 12 | — Anything unusual about his manner when he had left for work on the morning of the 24th ? — Not that she had noted . |
| 13 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |
| 14 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 16 | When he had spoken to Zoser something of this had come across , perhaps not consciously but perhaps not completely unconsciously either . |
| 17 | An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors . |
| 18 | Since then , since the whole-hearted and selfless manner in which she had helped him , and had comforted him after Effie 's death — he remembered her saying gently to him when he had railed against Fate and his own incompetence , ‘ Do n't , Dr Neil , do n't . |
| 19 | When he had finished with Maurin his great dark eyes fixed on Joseph . |
| 20 | Tom Tedder remembered one morning , four years back , when he had taken into class a picture he had painted , and rather liked — a picture of Florence from Fiesole . |
| 21 | Ryan got the property at half the asking price , and the contracts were signed by proxy when he had returned to America . |
| 22 | When he had returned to Baghdad , he had limped through Customs and Immigration to the car sent by the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 23 | The antisemitism in Vienna made his appointment to a university professorship difficult , but as he had married when he had returned from Paris in 1886 he needed to make a living . |
| 24 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 25 | When he got exhausted from parish work , and felt unwell , a fear would darken him , that the demon , seemingly exorcized , might return . |
| 26 | That would have happened too — if Danny had n't left his C.B radio rig switched on when he left to go on hight shift . |
| 27 | We have an eye-witness who heard him when he went to preach at Easington colliery to a large congregation of miners and their families , who felt that he himself and the other hearers were electrified . |
| 28 | THIS is the book which Peter Mayle planned to write when he went to live in France . |
| 29 | And when the granny come up again without him she told that when he went to back to Glasgow , if he came in hungry , he would say , Oh for a plate of porridge . |
| 30 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |