Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
| 2 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 3 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 4 | He should have seen the face of his right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley when he evaded answering a question about the word ’ federal ’ . |
| 5 | It becomes evident that Julian is a representative figure of the writer when he decides to write a novel ( 82 ) , and Decibel that of the oral media when she declares writing to be her natural enemy ( 186 ) . |
| 6 | In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan . |
| 7 | James was in action again when he failed to hold a Hodgson hook at 67 and at 98 the batsmen also offered a chance to Matthew Maynard at slip that was not accepted . |
| 8 | He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence . |
| 9 | But the bubble burst when he failed to raise the cash for the scheme . |
| 10 | But Roper was the only Ballyshannon attacker to get his name on the score sheet , and when he failed to tie the game up with that late penalty the misery was complete for De La Salle . |
| 11 | MCLAREN 's problems appeared to intensify as the race approached , with the Austrian swapping cars 30 minutes before the start and then being forced to start from the pit-lane when he failed to make the parade lap . |
| 12 | Mr Brown alleged that Grugel twice asked plasterer Peter McCabe for some plaster boards and when he threatened to tell the police Grugel assaulted him , causing a laceration above his eyebrow which needed hospital treatment . |
| 13 | Mr Brown alleged that Grugel twice asked plasterer Peter McCabe for some plaster boards and when he threatened to tell the police , Grugel assaulted him , causing a one inch laceration above his left eyebrow . |
| 14 | I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door . |
| 15 | Harold Macmillan , at the time of the 1962 party conference at Llandudno , when he applied to join the Community , described it as ’ perhaps the most fateful and forward-looking policy decision in our peacetime history . ’ |
| 16 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 17 | defendant in belief that it was necessary to enter an appearance before a payment into court could be made was not estopped when he sought to have the case dismissed for want of prosecution on discovering that the writ had not9 been served . |
| 18 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 19 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 20 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |
| 21 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 22 | When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand . |
| 23 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 24 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 25 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 26 | A row had followed : he had been returning home when he had heard a noise . |
| 27 | When he had heard the rest of the tale , Maggie said , ‘ Your arm 'll come back to you soon . |
| 28 | He had completely lost his temper when he had heard the news that Clasper had taken the giant Merseyside plant out on strike . |
| 29 | When he had stopped the car to pick her up she had been terrified . |
| 30 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |