Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 2 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 3 | When he returned to the stalls he sat beside Kate . |
| 4 | When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep . |
| 5 | But Donald 's first remark , when he returned with the drinks , was even more eerily appropriate to what Henry had in mind . |
| 6 | They were going to put the crane on the pipe when he returned from the stores , he said . |
| 7 | Is it not the case that the right hon. Gentleman 's delay in coming to the House to announce his decision is because , when he looked at the facts , he was minded to reject the application but was told by the puppet master sitting next to him that he had to make a political decision ? |
| 8 | There was only one occasion when he intervened during the rehearsals , according to Irene Worth . |
| 9 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 10 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 11 | Now this is , Rocetta is the first campsite that Hannibal had when he went through the alps with his el elephants . |
| 12 | He just felt pleased when he thought about the kudos of pulling someone half his age or less . |
| 13 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 14 | When he took off the covers next morning he was shocked to find it was not a ‘ small tub worth £100 or so ’ but a sophisticated sailing vessel . |
| 15 | Mark is believed to have become the first blind presenter to host his own radio show when he took to the airwaves at BBC Radio Cleveland yesterday . |
| 16 | Only when he came through the trees and round the small hill that sheltered the house , only then did he see the soldiers who had camped in the house and the grounds . |
| 17 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 18 | When he came to the words , ‘ Then said his wife unto him , Dost thou still retain thy integrity ? ’ , |
| 19 | When he came into the labs , Corbett was already poised over a crucible of smoking liquid , looking less like a mad professor than an incompetent short-order cook . |
| 20 | " That Cassowary will come to a band end , " grunted old Owl when he heard of the goings-on . |
| 21 | That is why Paul was so angry and distressed when he heard of the divisions in the Christian church at Corinth . |
| 22 | when he walked through the bushes |
| 23 | It became Minton 's second home , to such an extent that on one occasion when he walked into the Caves de France , a long , dark , rather Spartan bar which had a club licence and stayed open during the afternoons , he confronted a crowd of around fifteen of his friends , a throng he himself had largely created through introducing one to another . |
| 24 | He could n't imagine a government servant working abroad who did not feel that tug of pleasure when he walked up the steps of his embassy in a foreign capital . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't forget the vagrant was heavily sedated when he spoke to the authorities . |
| 26 | glowed red-brown when he spoke to the flames . |
| 27 | When he talked of the hostages or the contras something of the old fire returned , together with the old emotional lines from cabinet meetings and television speeches . |
| 28 | Creed was inside the house for almost an hour and when he emerged on the steps it was n't Sir Charles who was with him , but Sir Charles 's wife . |
| 29 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 30 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |