Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 2 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 5 | His rise was secured when he wed into the British middle class by marrying army captain 's daughter Isabella Sarah Moorsom . |
| 6 | When he returned to the two worried women , decisions were made . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 10 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 11 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | When he wrote in the last fragments |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 22 | But when he argued over the great issues of human belief , he still did so in the tone which he reserved for the politics of the pavement and the public baths , the voice pitched somewhere between a sneer and a snarl . |
| 23 | The king was the guest of Richard Wolph , a prosperous gentleman farmer , until the evening of May 4th , when he left by the same gate for Southwell . |
| 24 | The right hon. Gentleman said that , when he went to the European Parliament in 1987 , he was , to say the least , a reluctant European . |
| 25 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 26 | When he went through the back door he discovered the printers had gone home and thought at first no one was there . |
| 27 | Karen Schendel looked up and smiled at Whitlock when he knocked on the open door . |
| 28 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |
| 29 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |
| 30 | Subsequently , Gorbachev left Ryzhkov looking even more embattled when he announced to the Supreme Soviet that he personally preferred Shatalin 's programme . |