Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he realised what was happening he put the pressure on , and was closing with them when he saw another assault boat . |
| 2 | Workshop manager Gordon McLean had been testing a car on Akers Way , when he saw another car pass in front on his , travelling at around 65 to 70 mph . |
| 3 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 4 | Further financial difficulties arose when he signed Swedish quadruplets Hans , Benny , Bjorn and Agnetha Larsson . |
| 5 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 6 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 7 | And the eighth seed 's hopes of an easy Centre Court opening were dashed when he landed awkward German Bernd Karbacher , ranked 36 in the world , in today 's draw . |
| 8 | We went through days with him when he met African trades union seminars and black nationalist leaders ; Cabinet Ministers ; some of the most shell-backed Right-wingers and some of the most outspoken men of the Left . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a thirty-two-year-old widower when he met nineteen-year-old Lucia Lucchesi and fell deeply in love with her . |
| 10 | Also addressing the Dolphin Centre rally was Darlington-born Tom Sawyer , deputy secretary of NUPE , who won a roar from the crowd when he announced new opinion poll findings giving Labour a six point lead . |
| 11 | When he commanded 4th Field Regiment in Northern Ireland in 1974 the regiment was awarded four Queen 's Gallantry Medals and four Commander-in-Chief 's commendations ; it also recovered more weapons than any other unit serving in Belfast up to that time . |
| 12 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 13 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 14 | World flyweight champion Muangchai Kittikasem retained his WBC crown yesterday in Bangkok when he stopped fellow-Thai Sot Chitalada in the ninth round . |
| 15 | Stich , Wimbledon king two years ago , unleashed nine aces , and was only in trouble on his serve in the opening game of the match , when he saved three break points . |
| 16 | Stich , Wimbledon king two years ago , unleashed nine aces , and was only in trouble on his serve in the opening game of the match , when he saved three break points . |
| 17 | Michael Stich delivered an ominous Wimbledon warning when he dispatched great rival Boris Becker from the Stella Artois championships yesterday . |
| 18 | James Toney captured the IBF super-middleweight title from Iran Barkley when the doctor halted their bout in Las Vegas after the ninth round of their scheduled 12-rounder , while Markus Bott , of Germany , won the WBO cruiserweight title when he outpointed American holder Tyrone Booze over 12 rounds in Hamburg . |
| 19 | Yet the reality has been so , so different , with the latest low occurring when he damaged medial knee ligaments while playing in a reserve match last Thursday . |
| 20 | A TEENAGER may have saved passengers on a sleeper train when he cleared two shopping trolleys from the line minutes before the train arrived . |
| 21 | When he arrived that morning David appeared cool towards her — so cool , in contrast to the friendly relationship they had previously established , that Nina noticed it and mentioned it while she and Rachel were working out a list of appointments for management medicals . |
| 22 | Walker ( 1975 ) showed that when he monitored real curriculum decision-making , albeit in the context of a curriculum project , he found that statements of aims did not dominate . |
| 23 | For Mr when he mentioned two security staff , they were er bystanders , they did n't do nothing whatsoever . |
| 24 | TV 's former Minder Dennis Waterman tried to keep his armour up when he joined new partner Leslie Ash yesterday . |
| 25 | TOUGH-GUY actor and boxer Mickey Rourke caused an uproar when he beat Canadian middleweight Terry Jessmer in a farcical televised bout in Madrid , Spain . |
| 26 | CHRIS WILKINSON gave both himself and Jeremy Bates a massive pre-Wimbledon lift when he beat Argentinian left-hander Javier Frana 7–5 6–4 in the first round of the Direct Line Insurance Manchester Open at Didsbury . |