Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 2 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 3 | He should have seen the face of his right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley when he evaded answering a question about the word ’ federal ’ . |
| 4 | It becomes evident that Julian is a representative figure of the writer when he decides to write a novel ( 82 ) , and Decibel that of the oral media when she declares writing to be her natural enemy ( 186 ) . |
| 5 | James was in action again when he failed to hold a Hodgson hook at 67 and at 98 the batsmen also offered a chance to Matthew Maynard at slip that was not accepted . |
| 6 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 7 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 8 | A row had followed : he had been returning home when he had heard a noise . |
| 9 | Yes , and then my father , when he had recovered a bit , he came to live with Grandma . |
| 10 | When he had drawn a furrow that everybody could see was one of the best — even before the stickers put the sticks on it — they say : |
| 11 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 12 | Later , when he had evolved a sign language of his own , he would cross his thumbs and flap his hands : this meant ‘ chicken ’ or ‘ food ’ ( The Observer , 30 August 1978 ) . |
| 13 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 14 | Once when he had to play a matinée at the Old Vic , for instance , in Hamlet , scarcely offstage for a moment , there was a Welsh International match . |
| 15 | Then Mr Sayers died prematurely when John was only about fifteen , so he was still just a boy when he had to become a man overnight , so to speak , and try and take on the running of this large and rather complicated farm . |
| 16 | Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away . |
| 17 | Jim still carries the scars of his Carry Ons — he fell off the camel he was supposed to be riding and his left arm was badly broken during the making of Doctor , when he had to ride a hospital trolley down a flight of stairs , through a plate-glass window and on to a table . |
| 18 | A PLUMBER tapped into a hoard of cash when he went to repair a leak . |
| 19 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 20 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 21 | Her father would joke about him to her when he 'd had a drink over much : ‘ Ready-made son you 've got now then , daughter , is it ? ’ he 'd say . |
| 22 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 23 | When he 'd got a shot he liked , we 'd go to bed . |
| 24 | When he does want a pause , Charpentier gives very specific instructions such as ‘ Suivez apres une petite pause ’ ( ‘ Continue after a brief pause ’ ) . |
| 25 | Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley . |
| 26 | He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before . |
| 27 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 28 | But Mr Kowalski trips up when he tries to get a bit too popular , as in another Capriccio release , ‘ Plaisir d'amour , ’ in which he sings clichéd salon music ( CD 10 324 ) . |
| 29 | Firstly then is purposive thought which a man uses when he tries to find a solution to some problem . |
| 30 | Normally , Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrères , but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod . |