Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 2 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 3 | His argument is further weakened when he seeks to defend the very institution that does bring us Dynasty , Dallas and Blankety Blank ! |
| 4 | The result of this dichotomy is that the employer who can rely on the right to protect his business secrets is much more likely to succeed in court than when he seeks to enforce a traditional restraint of trade clause . |
| 5 | His wife claimed that her husband had been had been shot by the Army when he threatened to expose the whole affair if his $1,000,000 investment in La Cutufa was not returned . |
| 6 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Mick was peeling potatoes , carrots and onions , which he had bought when he had made an advance visit to Adrar the day before . |
| 8 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 9 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 10 | He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced . |
| 11 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 12 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 13 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 14 | When he had inserted the local the big man put the syringe down . |
| 15 | Even as she tried to evade him , he was drawing her closer , making the blood sing in her veins as he smiled down at her , the hypnotic blue eyes half shuttered but still as powerful , as he raised a firm hand to the back of her head , guiding her face towards his own , his mouth seeking the trembling softness of hers , hard and demanding as it reached its goal , yet instantly becoming as gentle and manipulative as it had been when he had coaxed the throbbing melody from the borrowed trumpet . |
| 16 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 17 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 18 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 19 | His twin seventeen-year-old grand-daughters had just left school and when he had read the rough draft of Sara 's prospectus he had immediately suggested that she enrolled Celia and Rosalind . |
| 20 | The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
| 22 | When he had rung the German Embassy , after a thoroughly unsatisfactory morning , neither Suzanne Simonis nor Hannele had recognized the name , although both had known immediately who it was . |
| 23 | When he came to consider the classic requirements of necessity and proportionality , he had this to say , at para. 14 : |
| 24 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 25 | When he 'd gone the Annamese woman turned to stare apprehensively at her husband . |
| 26 | Like when he 'd killed the clever boy , who had blasphemed the headster time . |
| 27 | It is very easy to read him wrong and to make mistakes , and there are , of course , occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity , which it would be ridiculous to try and develop . |
| 28 | It is very easy to read him wrong , and to make mistakes , and there are of course occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity which it would be ridiculous to , to try and develop . |
| 29 | He looked around in alarm when he began to smell the escaping gas , and quickly noticed the smashed tap . |
| 30 | Richard Baxter had already made his position clear when he stopped preaching the previous May soon after the Act had received royal assent . |