Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 When Edouard left for the airport the next morning , Isobel was with him .
2 We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt .
3 When Surrey tied for the Championship in 1950 the county had the makings of a great side .
4 Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether .
5 Only about one hundred copies had been circulated when Shelley asked for the destruction of the rest of the edition .
6 When Mapplethorpe asked for the objects to be returned , Bell and his staff presented him with a letter purported to be in Wagstaff 's hand , extending the loan period an additional five years .
7 His domination of the set was only threatened at the death when the Swede , trying anything in a do-or-die effort , pegged him back to deuce from 40-love when Becker served for the set at 5–4 .
8 Everton were surviving a Leeds siege thanks to Neville Southall 's brilliance when Ablett erred for the first time .
9 When Schoenberg asks for the piccolo to play ppp in the top level of its register ‘ so schwach wie möglich ’ with the bassoon and solo strings at different dynamic levels , and then asks for completely different textures and dynamics in the next variation , I know that this can not be properly realized by an orchestra in a concert-hall seated in the conventional way .
10 Loyal service was recognised when Charles arranged for the commemoration at St-Denis of two particularly close fideles , extending to them benefits until then made available only to the king 's blood-relatives .
11 There was an independent witness who deposed that Aitken had a conversation with him shortly after the publication of the report and before any fee was paid , when Aitken asked for the names of Biafran charities to which the money might properly be sent .
12 Julian 's answer is that when Titius sues for the legacy he can be opposed with an exceptio doli unless he has given a guarantee that he will manumit Stichus .
13 When Crawford auditioned for The Knack , producer Oscar Lewenstein asked him whether he had any previous experience .
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