Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 2 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 3 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |
| 4 | Macaulay Culkin is wonderful — I like him a lot — but I did get frightened at the bit when he slipped over on the ice and the bad men caught up with him . |
| 5 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 6 | Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day . |
| 7 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 8 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 9 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 10 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |