Example sentences of "when he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 2 | Anger and impulse do n't seem to be a part of his make-up : when he parodies the swaggering Hotspur , we can already see the fastidious distaste for self-dramatisation that will make him disown Falstaff , just as , when he imitates his father , we can see the strength this quiet man derives from the stately deliberation of majesty . |
| 3 | Gamble advances the same argument when he identifies the Conservative challenge to the social democratic concept of citizenship as an attempt to block the extension of equal civil , political and social rights to all citizens . |
| 4 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 5 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 6 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 7 | When he describes the foreign exile of Edmund Ironside 's sons Edmund and Edward , for example , Gaimar misnames them Edgar and Æthelred , and tells a rousing , romantic tale of their adventures , complete with dialogue . |
| 8 | Then , as she began to think about it , her anger rose , asserting itself to an even greater degree and causing her to almost hiss at him , ‘ Tell me this — what sort of a hypocrite kisses a woman when he dislikes the entire sex ? ’ |
| 9 | THERE ARE MOMENTS in a man 's life when he feels the gentle brush of destiny 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 10 | When he names the most-important squad of his England career — the one that could make or break him — I do hope he includes the names of Wright and Everton 's Peter Beardsley . |
| 11 | When he maintains the old spellings , ‘ daunsinge ’ and ‘ matrimonie ’ , Eliot links himself with his East Coker ancestor Thomas Elyot . |
| 12 | One day he 'll want some , I 'm sure , when he meets the right person . ’ |
| 13 | Better telephone so that she can be sure that when he asks the dreaded question that they are . |
| 14 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 15 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
| 16 | You know it would be interesting to get Graham , when he does the next T Q M thing , to do it . |
| 17 | Ghorbanifar remembered how sometimes , driving with him in Europe , North would catch sight of Old Glory : ‘ and when he sees the American flag you can see the change in his eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ If Herre Christensen likes what we 've done when he sees the full campaign tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | Two weeks later , the same friend is walking down Oxford Street when he sees the same man with the same two gorillas . |
| 20 | Barat discovers the trick played upon him when he finds the real Haimet without the meat . |
| 21 | The question whether the curriculum is relevant or not is often posed in terms of what a child may need to know , when he leaves the protective environment of school . |
| 22 | When he leaves the meaty bone for the Armorog , it 's supposed to stay in its den , out of the way . |
| 23 | When he observes the actual performance he may find it difficult to associate what he has seen with what he had been led to expect . |
| 24 | John Young is always especially smart and handsome when he visits the lower deck for his strolls , morning and evening , with ivory-topped cane , with burnished black shoes , with plausible perfecto . |
| 25 | COMEDIAN Ken Dodd will put a smile on the faces of patients and staff when he visits the Royal Liverpool University Hospital next Wednesday to open the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service tea bar , which has undergone a £40,000 facelift . |
| 26 | Tomorrow comes the real test of strength when he faces the giant England pack . |
| 27 | Generally , a person organises a procession or an assembly when he makes the necessary arrangements for the conduct of the event by initiating it , planning the route or location , or assists in doing so . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects the higher standards of residual stability recommended by the steering committee of the roll on/roll off ferry safety research programme to be applied to all roll on/roll off ferries using British ports . |
| 29 | Aidan Macfarlane , however , reflects much sociological work when he mentions the complex motivations that lead to young people 's behaviour . |