Example sentences of "[adv] when he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 2 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , John does suffer from a hearing defect which er causes him loss of hearing and apparently when he puts his hearing aid in the speakers are causing some interference and a whistle within his ear . |
| 4 | A FRENCH driver took it literally when he asked for directions and was told to ‘ go straight over the roundabout ’ . |
| 5 | The Report of the Consultative Committee on Continuation Schools ( no doubt under the influence of Sadler ) quoted him approvingly when he wrote that apprentices should learn ‘ the truth of the maxim that the meaning of life is not to rule but to render service to one 's neighbour , service to one 's calling , service to one 's native country , service to truth and to justice ’ . |
| 6 | And naturally when he gets there he can say nothing . |
| 7 | Sometimes , Britten seems to have written more naturally when he did n't have words to set . |
| 8 | Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him . |
| 9 | He even telephoned Wexford to tell him about it , his elation subsiding somewhat when he heard the chief inspector had also found this out three hours before . |
| 10 | ‘ Was my husband alone when he brought them in ? ’ |
| 11 | He told them that he was answerable to Parliament alone when he made decisions and that it was his duty to take into account the wider interests of the public . |
| 12 | John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried about job security . |
| 13 | Charles had his own household to deal with his affairs which he had brought together when he came out of the forces . |
| 14 | John Hargrave , the Quaker founder of the Kibbo Kift Kin , came nearest to bringing it all together when he began his book on the Kin with a quotation from the Taoist Lao-Tzu : ‘ production without possession , action without self-assertion , development without domination . ’ |
| 15 | But with details Major Morton was less forthcoming , and Edward 's unease turned into something deeper when he named the ‘ traitors ’ who had drunk the shameful toast . |
| 16 | Another contemporary , Sergei Solov'ev , made the same point more acerbically when he said that " In the Roman Empire emperors ascended the throne from various callings " , whereas " in the Russian Empire Alexander II ascended the throne from the ranks of the heads of military-educational institutions " . |
| 17 | Wilson said it all when he said ‘ after half a century of democratic advance , the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl ’ . |
| 18 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |
| 19 | My brother , your father , will have all my money and my house after my death , and you will have it all when he dies . |
| 20 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 21 | And only when he got it did he accept that his day had arrived . |
| 22 | Only when he stooped and some lire changed hands did she realise that he must be intending to walk back . |
| 23 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |
| 24 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 25 | Only when he saw others smiling and laughing did he give the little barks . |
| 26 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 27 | Only when he went into the Victoria Nursing Home did she make the trip to Brighton — just a fortnight before he died . |
| 28 | Only when he came through the trees and round the small hill that sheltered the house , only then did he see the soldiers who had camped in the house and the grounds . |
| 29 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 30 | He had left as soon as he could , leaving Joe to consume half a bottle of whisky whole he raced through the backstreets , slowing to a walk only when he spotted someone approaching . |