Example sentences of "when he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 2 | Except when he had to go to sea . |
| 3 | That would have happened too — if Danny had n't left his C.B radio rig switched on when he left to go on hight shift . |
| 4 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
| 5 | When he came to work at lunchtime , his first question was : ‘ How goes it ? |
| 6 | When he moved to stand in front of her , barring her path , she looked down , terrified that he would read her fear on her face . |
| 7 | It is , indeed , part of what he meant when he claimed to adhere to science as a Weltanschuung , as distinct from a religious creed . |
| 8 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 9 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 10 | His life becomes even more complicated though when he starts to fall in love with his best friend 's lover and learns that his ex-wife is about to publish an expose of their marriage . |
| 11 | Some pay an additional disturbance payment to compensate the expatriate when he has to readjust to life in Britain on his return . |
| 12 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |