Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 2 | Anderson , twice winner of the North of Ireland , and once the South , was hurt when he failed to make the 1989 team which won at Peach Tree . |
| 3 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 4 | His argument is further weakened when he seeks to defend the very institution that does bring us Dynasty , Dallas and Blankety Blank ! |
| 5 | The result of this dichotomy is that the employer who can rely on the right to protect his business secrets is much more likely to succeed in court than when he seeks to enforce a traditional restraint of trade clause . |
| 6 | His wife claimed that her husband had been had been shot by the Army when he threatened to expose the whole affair if his $1,000,000 investment in La Cutufa was not returned . |
| 7 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Mick was peeling potatoes , carrots and onions , which he had bought when he had made an advance visit to Adrar the day before . |
| 9 | The fiction was that Nate had instructed Mueller to arrange to get Sanders down there quickly , when he had done no such thing . |
| 10 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 11 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 12 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 13 | He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced . |
| 14 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 15 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 16 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 17 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 18 | When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment . |
| 19 | When he had inserted the local the big man put the syringe down . |
| 20 | Even as she tried to evade him , he was drawing her closer , making the blood sing in her veins as he smiled down at her , the hypnotic blue eyes half shuttered but still as powerful , as he raised a firm hand to the back of her head , guiding her face towards his own , his mouth seeking the trembling softness of hers , hard and demanding as it reached its goal , yet instantly becoming as gentle and manipulative as it had been when he had coaxed the throbbing melody from the borrowed trumpet . |
| 21 | Gray died tragically early from smallpox when he had published a second edition ; but willing hands carried on the work , and the 35th edition was published by Longman in 1973 . |
| 22 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 23 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 24 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 25 | When he had finished the second slice , he looked at the Trunchbull , hesitating . |
| 26 | Yet when he had finished the first thing she said was , ‘ But you have n't really talked of the most important thing — the other eagles who were with you . |
| 27 | When he had finished the first beer , Maxim asked : ‘ Did you know the Schickerts well ? ’ |
| 28 | When he had finished the third page she put her head to one side and said in her cross-but-trying-to-be-helpful voice , ‘ I like the bit about Donald . ’ |
| 29 | His twin seventeen-year-old grand-daughters had just left school and when he had read the rough draft of Sara 's prospectus he had immediately suggested that she enrolled Celia and Rosalind . |
| 30 | The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter . |