Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 A distinguished philosopher , much admired in the profession , became a celebrity overnight when he wrote in a Sunday paper that what all the varied responses had in common was the forlorn belief that somehow , through talk or action , the decisive event would be warded off .
2 Find out what kind of birds and animals Columbus might have seen when he landed in the Bahamas .
3 Arsenal 's Paul Merson almost made it three when he connected with a Bull cross a minute before the break , but goalkeeper Adam Mateysek reacted quickly to parry the ball for a corner .
4 This was nothing new , as movie stars had supported John F. Kennedy when he ran for the White House .
5 Since the England manager acted as one of Ward 's referees when he applied for the York job , it was no surprise when Taylor turned to one of his trusted lieutenants to take charge of England 's Under-21 squad for the end-of-season international tournament in Toulon .
6 I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market .
7 TIM EGGAR , the Energy Minister , may have caused mild panic among oil industry investors at a London conference last week when he spoke about the UK sector of the North Sea during the last two years having a ‘ strike ’ rate higher than ever before .
8 It will probably haunt me like it did Walter Winterbottom when he lost to the States in 1950 .
9 There were extraordinary scenes when he arrived at the LSE .
10 The Imperial Dock which had cost £600,000 to build was finally opened by Provost Aitken on 8th November 1904 when he arrived in the S.S. Peveril , a vessel belonging to the well known Leith Shipowners , George Gibson & Co .
11 He served in her , with breaks of a few days , until 12 March 1781 , when he moved to the Foudroyant ( 80 guns ) as acting lieutenant , staying until the end of October .
12 Mike Mahoney , Newcastle 's director of rugby , set the target of promotion to Division One in three years when he moved into the Kingston Park hot seat .
13 CHEF Mark Williamson hopes to cook up his best ever time when he runs in the London Marathon .
14 I asked him what it felt like when he stood in the Richmond Building Foyer .
15 Dr Keith Mumby , a clinical ecologist , faced five charges when he appeared before the GMC last summer , but the charges did not include practising an unscientific form of medicine .
16 The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council .
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