Example sentences of "when he [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Loughborough agreed with Lord Rawdon when he said that pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society ; they were a pest . |
| 2 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to miss an important point when he said that head teachers were worried . |
| 4 | He was sitting beside the river watching dead leaves floating downstream when he noticed that one leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly — it was floating upstream . |
| 5 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 6 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 7 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 8 | He was educated in Paris , and when he heard that some Americans had been present at today 's ceremonies he expressed a wish to meet you . " |
| 9 | A local coroner on a routine inspection became suspicious when he discovered that one baby had unusually high levels of a potent heart drug , digoxin , in its tissues . |
| 10 | Dr Alex Comfort lifted the argument to the realm of world peace when he maintained that sexual activity of every kind is necessary in order to free human beings from the instinct to fight and harm others . |
| 11 | His confrontational attitude caused controversy , notably when he suggested that some ambulance personnel were little more than professional drivers . |
| 12 | I think Sanders choked when he missed that short putt to win . |
| 13 | Franklin even added point ( excuse me ) to the argument about whether pointed or knobbed lightning rods may be preferable when he showed that blunted ones acted at a greater distance . |
| 14 | Bukharin had already indicated a part of his reasoning when he proposed that political economy as a subject of study would disappear under socialism , because : |
| 15 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |