Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laurence McGeown 's wide runner satisfied selectors last week at the Dublin track when he cruised to a facile seven lengths victory , 30.61 seconds , over the Anglo-Irish International 503 metres distance . |
| 2 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 3 | He was still pondering on the problem when he drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 4 | When he woke from an exhausted sleep Greg had — he felt — one piece of the jigsaw definitively in place : the letter from Walter Machin to Hilda dated 2 June 1939 was a fake . |
| 5 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 6 | The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah was right when he said of an unlikely event that you might as well expect a leopard to change its spots . |
| 7 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 8 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 9 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 10 | He was running sixth and looking good for a point after a tense battle in the final laps when he span off the rain-soaked track on the last lap . |
| 11 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 12 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 13 | His rise was secured when he wed into the British middle class by marrying army captain 's daughter Isabella Sarah Moorsom . |
| 14 | When he returned to the two worried women , decisions were made . |
| 15 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 16 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 17 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 18 | When he looked at the tremendous penalty borne by the aircraft in regard to the armour plating carried , the first thing to go was a huge ½″ thick slab that could have graced Fort Knox , but which protected the W/Op and the cabin crew , and that must have weighed several hundred pounds . |
| 19 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 20 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 21 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 22 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 23 | World record-holder Lewis — who lost his chance of an Olympic 100-metre hat-trick when he flopped in the American trials — will collide with Christie in Zurich on August 19 . |
| 24 | Later that month industry minister Edward Leigh signalled a hardening of the Government 's position when he wrote to The Northern Echo outlining its case . |
| 25 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 26 | When he wrote in the last fragments |
| 27 | New Zealander Chris O'Neill was the first Kiwi to sport the red and white of Japan when he played at the 1990 Hong Kong Sevens — but he almost certainly wo n't be the last . |
| 28 | In the 1912–13 season Harry was awarded Representative honours , when he played for the Southern League in all three inter-league fixtures against the Football League , the Scottish League and the League of Ireland . |
| 29 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |