Example sentences of "when he [verb] [to-vb] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A PLUMBER tapped into a hoard of cash when he went to repair a leak . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley . |
| 11 | He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before . |
| 12 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Firstly then is purposive thought which a man uses when he tries to find a solution to some problem . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had a moment — it was more than a moment , it was minutes together — when he wanted to cup a hand around her head and for all that they were still almost in the street , open his trousers and feel her tongue lap him and her lips close on him . |
| 17 | And when he was alone sometimes and Mr Henry was a blacksmith , when he wanted to kill a bullock he used to come and help him to slaughter this bullock . |
| 18 | When he wanted to make a phone call , he overcame the problem of looking up names and numbers by using a push-button telephone with a number memory . |
| 19 | When he wanted to emphasize a point he rolled his rrrs . |
| 20 | But really these people , and there 're about thirty other nationalities , by the way , being held , he just wants to show how tough he is , and it 's useful in the future , as now , when he wants to make a gesture . |
| 21 | It happened on a visit to his native Glasgow , when he decided to borrow a friend 's camera and see what he could do . |
| 22 | ‘ Urm , ’ they all boom ponderously , on varying notes , when he fails to answer a question at once . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he intends to make a decision on the application for grant-maintained status from Torrells comprehensive school , Grays , Essex . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to conclude a sale of the Princess of Wales RAF hospital , Ely . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to make a decision relating to West Yorkshire police authority 's application for a £3.6 million grant from the urban crime fund . |
| 26 | LONE yatchsman Alan Thomas thought his first Christmas at sea would be a merry one when he awoke to find a copy of girlie magazine Playboy among his presents . |
| 27 | For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break . |
| 28 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 29 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 30 | Their normally strong relationship is threatened when he has to reveal a family secret . |