Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 2 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 3 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |
| 4 | Her eyes were sparkling and her legs bustling when he had staggered into the incident room an hour late at nine o'clock : he had been so tired he had slept through the high-pitched beep of his alarm clock . |
| 5 | When he had kicked over the traces , after Cambridge — joined the City police as a flat-foot , instead of following his family 's military tradition — they had volunteered to come to London with him . |
| 6 | He was also a public figure of some note , being alderman from 1541 and lord mayor in 1550–1 , when he had to deal with the problems caused by dearth and by the 1551 ‘ calling down ’ of the coinage . |
| 7 | When he had got to the hotel , he had looked for Carver , but to no avail . |
| 8 | He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council . |
| 9 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 10 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 11 | The first thing he had done when he had come into the apartment had been to turn off the heating system , and then he had opened the window in his bedroom and the window in the sparsely furnished living room . |
| 12 | Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another . |
| 13 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 14 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 15 | And complained that she had refused to let him in when he had returned from the wine bar having forgotten his key . |
| 16 | It was a boiling hot morning , he had three other appointments before lunch , and his head ached dully from the excess of Jack Daniels he had drunk the night before with the child 's father , who had been beside himself with rage when he had arrived at the Presbytery . |
| 17 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 18 | We were wrong to accuse Cliftonville of not appealing on Joe 's behalf when he got suspended until the end of the season . |
| 19 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 20 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 21 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 22 | Determined not to hold Penry up , she made her purchases at such speed that she was outside , waiting , when he came striding down the narrow street to collect her . |
| 23 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 24 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 25 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 26 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 27 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 29 | He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone . |
| 30 | Watching from the window , Hilary grinned as she saw him hurry towards the driver , and only when he 'd climbed into the car did she move . |