Example sentences of "when he [vb past] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's an unexpected and welcome bonus , ’ declared Tom , happily , when he passed on the news . |
| 2 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 3 | Yet when he trilled on the water-whistle , he seemed to create birds singing in the branches of invisible trees overhead . |
| 4 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 5 | The purchase of ships from the Russians was kept from the Minister of Marine : when he insisted on the examination of the ships he was dismissed . |
| 6 | I did n't know him when he got on the bus . |
| 7 | We have to get this clear once and for all and it is the question of what Neil Armstrong said when he landed on the Moon . |
| 8 | CRAYFORD 's Some Rabbit was tagged The Fugitive when he went on the run from his Essex kennels . |
| 9 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 10 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 11 | Then when he knocked on the door this morning I swallowed a whole lot of saved-up salt and water and pressed my tongue and the timing was perfect , he came in and saw me being sick . |
| 12 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 13 | When he came on the phone almost instantly , she found it impossible to speak . |
| 14 | In June 1965 the plaintiff , a child of six , was severely injured when he stepped on the line , having passed through the broken fence . |
| 15 | ‘ He might already have been dead when he fell on the fire , in which case he would n't have known anything about it . ’ |
| 16 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 17 | But when he walked on the field you 'd think it was Goliath coming on there . ’ |
| 18 | To get ousted when he felt on the threshold of something great is a crying shame . ’ |
| 19 | Even earlier , in 1751 , he had had the same theme in mind when he began On the Immensity of the Supreme Being : |
| 20 | This was a process which fascinated George Curzon , the future Viceroy of India , when he travelled on the line in 1888 soon after its opening . |
| 21 | Wickham had said as much when he spoke on the telephone to Ray Darby , the documents expert , telling him the file was on its way to him . |
| 22 | Perhaps he thought of this too when he climbed on the chair and made a noose at the end of the rope , a very neat noose with the rope bound ten times round the loop in even rings . |
| 23 | Creed was inside the house for almost an hour and when he emerged on the steps it was n't Sir Charles who was with him , but Sir Charles 's wife . |
| 24 | When he arrived on the set all hunched up with his head down to his waist , she knew there were going to be problems on the way . |
| 25 | Newens caused some unintentional hilarity when he commented on the policies of the Ceauşescu regime towards its Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 26 | According to Reagan himself , when he appeared on the factory floor In assessing Reagan 's qualifications for the presidency his experience before he ran for elective office can not be discounted . |
| 27 | It all seemed so clear when he appeared on the Frost programme two days before the Leader of the Opposition 's visit to Luigi 's restaurant . |
| 28 | The importance of training was emphasised by Lord Clyde when he reported on the child abuse inquiry in Orkney , recommending an extra year of training for social workers . |
| 29 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 30 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |