Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan . |
| 2 | But the bubble burst when he failed to raise the cash for the scheme . |
| 3 | But Roper was the only Ballyshannon attacker to get his name on the score sheet , and when he failed to tie the game up with that late penalty the misery was complete for De La Salle . |
| 4 | MCLAREN 's problems appeared to intensify as the race approached , with the Austrian swapping cars 30 minutes before the start and then being forced to start from the pit-lane when he failed to make the parade lap . |
| 5 | Mr Brown alleged that Grugel twice asked plasterer Peter McCabe for some plaster boards and when he threatened to tell the police Grugel assaulted him , causing a laceration above his eyebrow which needed hospital treatment . |
| 6 | Mr Brown alleged that Grugel twice asked plasterer Peter McCabe for some plaster boards and when he threatened to tell the police , Grugel assaulted him , causing a one inch laceration above his left eyebrow . |
| 7 | I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door . |
| 8 | Harold Macmillan , at the time of the 1962 party conference at Llandudno , when he applied to join the Community , described it as ’ perhaps the most fateful and forward-looking policy decision in our peacetime history . ’ |
| 9 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 10 | defendant in belief that it was necessary to enter an appearance before a payment into court could be made was not estopped when he sought to have the case dismissed for want of prosecution on discovering that the writ had not9 been served . |
| 11 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 12 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 13 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |
| 14 | When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand . |
| 15 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 16 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 17 | When he had heard the rest of the tale , Maggie said , ‘ Your arm 'll come back to you soon . |
| 18 | He had completely lost his temper when he had heard the news that Clasper had taken the giant Merseyside plant out on strike . |
| 19 | When he had stopped the car to pick her up she had been terrified . |
| 20 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 21 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 22 | ‘ Now we got to wash up our fingers and later we eat , ’ said the second man , when he had collected the paper cups and straws . |
| 23 | On those occasions when he had felt the need to demonstrate his power to management , he would create an instant departmental dispute which always had the immediate effect of lowering that day 's efficiency to below fifty per cent . |
| 24 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 25 | When he had shut the door of her bedroom behind them both , he came to stand in front of her and stroked her face with one finger , tracing her eyebrows , the semi-circular curve of the bones under her eyes , the diagonal lines of her cheekbones , and her lips . |
| 26 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 27 | When he had explored the problem , I asked him if he could write down a number in the sequence and say which numbers were squared and added together to make it . |
| 28 | One would treasure the copy of Herodotus that Charles James Fox was reading by a roaring wood fire when he had completed the squandering of£140,000 at the gaming table . |
| 29 | When he had completed the tape , he had absorbed a required unit of work , and subsequent testing generally demonstrated that students were rapidly improving in their grasp of essential material , as well as responding positively to this method of instruction . |
| 30 | When he had lifted the hood of the Capri , and fastened the arm to hold it open , then he bent again and reached under the chassis to retrieve the plastic bag holding the Ruger . |