Example sentences of "when he [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he returned to the two worried women , decisions were made . |
| 2 | Tillich recognizes the former point , when he refers to the mystical approach to nature , which is to be found in the works of St Francis of Assisi , Protestant mystics and German Romantics , and states that they illustrate an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity . |
| 3 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 4 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 5 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 6 | But when he gets to the other side of the crossroads it 's not Rose , after all . |
| 7 | So I know a guy for example who , when he gets his Visa bill say the last third of the month , he puts it into the envelope , and makes a note in the diary on say the twenty first , to pay the Visa bill , and when he gets to the twenty first , lo and behold , he knows where the Visa bill is and he has to pay it . |
| 8 | Later that month industry minister Edward Leigh signalled a hardening of the Government 's position when he wrote to The Northern Echo outlining its case . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman said that , when he went to the European Parliament in 1987 , he was , to say the least , a reluctant European . |
| 10 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 11 | Subsequently , Gorbachev left Ryzhkov looking even more embattled when he announced to the Supreme Soviet that he personally preferred Shatalin 's programme . |
| 12 | When he succeeded to the English throne in 1272 Edward I was already in his thirties and a man of wide experience . |
| 13 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |
| 14 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 15 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 16 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 17 | It is a welcome return from the golfing wilderness for the former Durham County champion who carried hopes of a highly successful professional career when he moved to the paid ranks after gaining international honours some five years ago . |
| 18 | But he was okay nationally , but when he reverted to the Senior Team , they erm changed his points situation by a calculation and erm said he could n't come in which was a bit ludicrous . |
| 19 | He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones . |
| 20 | When he lost to the now-tragic figure of Michael Watson in 1989 , Benn believed he was invincible — incredibly he spent nearly five hours on fight-day having his hair plaited . |
| 21 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 22 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 23 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 24 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 25 | Eccleshall appears to be on stronger ground when he looks to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for evidence of libertarian Conservatism . |