Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Finally his life was saved when he landed on a narrow ledge 25ft from the bottom of the pit . |
| 9 | Transexual Derek Arnell , 28 , underwent hormone transplants and breast implants and was months away from completing the transformation when he went on a fateful girls ' night out . |
| 10 | A RAVE party-goer high on Ecstasy wiped out years of vital cancer research when he went on a wrecking spree in a university laboratory . |
| 11 | A RAVE party-goer high on Ecstasy wiped out years of vital cancer research when he went on a wrecking spree in a university laboratory . |
| 12 | Mr Tony Newton , the Social Security Secretary , was accused of misleading Parliament when he announced in a written reply that Electronic Data Systems had been given the five-year contract for running the centre at Norcross , Lancashire , ‘ following consideration of a tender ’ . |
| 13 | He was in despair , when he came across a known face ; Richard Urquhart , the precentor whom he remembered starting the psalms with a good clear tenor note at Savill 's Old , at the beginning of his sojourn here ; and later at the Heathertons ' . |
| 14 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 15 | I had not yet learnt that a German is not necessarily angry because he is shouting , and so was surprised when he added in a gentle cooing voice : |
| 16 | A CHEF who cancelled the final stage of a £20,000 sex-change operation when he fell for a pretty blonde announced yesterday : ‘ She 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 17 | David Nock , who was 16 , from Leckhampton in Cheltenham , was jogging home from a disco when he died from a single stab wound to the heart . |
| 18 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 19 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 20 | Malcolm Beavers , a former inspector , has now retired on a police pension after contracting an infection when he dived into a polluted stretch of the River Aire at Selby , North Yorkshire . |
| 21 | Even the New Forest Hunt master admitted it was wrong when he spoke at a rival press conference . |
| 22 | Karl was judged to be a normal , pleasant boy when he started as a clerical assistant in February 1943 , but he was soon complaining that the work he was given was boring and that his pay — 1/6d an hour — was not enough . |
| 23 | But one can sympathise with Mr Justice Henry , the now redundant Guinness judge , when he called for a radical re-appraisal of the way big fraud cases are handled . |
| 24 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 25 | FOURTEEN-year-old Manoel Jorge Santos had no idea of the perils awaiting him in Sao Paulo when he fled from a broken home and brawling stepfather , trudging 50 miles to the city 's cathedral square in search of a new life . |
| 26 | There are puzzles about many of his movements , recorded differently by different writers ; and when he emerged as a national and international leader , almost immediately a myth-making process began . |
| 27 | South African President F W de Klerk ducked out of the row when he arrived for a three-day visit to Britain . |
| 28 | When he appeared before a great crowd of miners and their families in the primitive football stadium at Lupeni , he was greeted with catcalls about the ‘ red bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 29 | When he appeared in a Spanish court as an expert witness concerning US extradition laws for Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela , otherwise known as ‘ The Chessplayer ’ , the prosecutor pilloried him as a turncoat . |
| 30 | Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . |