Example sentences of "[adv] when he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried about job security . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only when he had a rope in his hand was he cruel . |
| 6 | Prior Robert was conscious of his shadow only when he had an errand for him to run , or need of his obsequious presence to restore a balance when someone had managed to scar the priorial dignity . |
| 7 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 8 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 9 | Then he darted out of the room , pausing only when he reached the barn , to lean against the door and breathe deeply . |
| 10 | Thus the farmer on whose land the first find was made discovered his land was being prospected only when he found the prospectors sampling streams on his land . |
| 11 | Only when he has an embarrassingly large crop does he present a bunch to his wife , Pat . |
| 12 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 13 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 14 | Cedric could run to his heart 's content out there and Con would be able to bring him along when he does the garden . |
| 15 | He 'll have her fast enough when he knows the sum of her portion . ’ |
| 16 | One morning in October he was wiping the counter down when he heard a motorbike approaching . |
| 17 | His language was certainly not watered down when he charged the scribes and Pharisees with being ‘ white-washed sepulchres ’ , ‘ blind guides ’ and even ‘ a brood of vipers ’ . |
| 18 | He comes down when he has a lot of writing to do because it 's quiet . |
| 19 | But he did not mind God saying it , especially when he felt the kindly grip on his shoulder . |
| 20 | While he does n't support competition climbing , he can not see what right he has to offer an opinion on the subject , especially when he considers the commercialism of some Himalayan mountaineers . |
| 21 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 22 | Wattana was keen to sample the richer fare of the international circuit — especially when he notched the scalps of Steve Davis , Terry Griffiths and Dennis Taylor on his way to winning the Camus Masters at 18 . |
| 23 | I do not believe in the doctrine that every man must stand on his own two feet , especially when he has a wooden leg . |
| 24 | Cutting the grass , especially when he used a hand mower on the trickier Patches , was best . |
| 25 | Graham had already budgeted on being in Martigny ten minutes prior to the train 's scheduled arrival so when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill . |
| 26 | So when he uses the term utilitarianism he takes it to mean eudaemonistic consequentialism . |
| 27 | There was a poet I met , quite young , who had n't ever got his poems published while he was alive , so when he discovered a computer in the office where he 'd worked , he fed all sorts of things into it which were n't supposed to be there . |
| 28 | So when he saw the 301 project it gave him the idea of using ultra-modern airframe and engine technology and aerodynamics to achieve the same magic numbers with a single turboprop instead of two kerosene-guzzling pure jets . |
| 29 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 30 | So when he rehearsed the scene he based it on his experience at the chemist 's , an example of his always having to make contact with a real , lived emotion . |