Example sentences of "when he [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith assured him quickly , and felt dreadfully sorry for him when he clearly sought crumbs of comfort . |
| 2 | James , when he finally reached Corunna , was to remain there until a successful lodgement in England had been made . |
| 3 | When he finally reached Marseilles , he expected to find the fleet of over a hundred ships which he had commissioned in advance . |
| 4 | When he finally divorced Catherine , he sent her to a damp , draughty cottage in the hope that she would die of pleurisy . |
| 5 | It was after dark when he finally regained consciousness with the jolting realization that the snake should have caught up with him . |
| 6 | Timeshare salesman Thomas Kerr , 21 , from Loughton , Essex , was jailed for 18 months at Snaresbrook Crown Court when he also admitted burglary and stealing £10,000 worth of computer equipment . |
| 7 | The meetings and discussions in Washington were part of a week-long visit to North America by Gorbachev , who visited Canada on May 29-30 , and the US cities of Minneapolis on June 3 and San Francisco on June 4 ( when he also met President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea , in the first contact at the highest level between the two countries ) . |
| 8 | Saints boss Ian Branfoot made it a double raid on London when he also signed Chelsea 's Dutch defender Ken Monkou for a similar figure . |
| 9 | When he brusquely told visitors that of course China was going to station units of the People 's Liberation Army in Hong Kong after 1997 , the colony shuddered . |
| 10 | When he eventually succeeded Nixon , Ford immediately made reassuring noises to his former colleagues in the legislature . |
| 11 | Only occasionally , in the heat of the party , did this formula go amiss as when he blithely introduced Robert Morley ( playwright , actor , racanteur and wit ) to his own son Sheridan . |
| 12 | He followed them home with something of the elation of a successful spy , and when he eagerly observed Clare 's final self-abandonment in the porch it seemed to him that he had obtained some immensely pleasurable secret . |
| 13 | It was n't that he minded her presence ; and he did n't mind her company , on those occasions when he actually spent time with her . |
| 14 | When he publicly questioned Truman 's decision not to use Chinese Nationalist troops in Korea , Truman decided the pretensions of his Caesar had gone far enough . |
| 15 | Three days later King Bhumibol effectively legitimized the coup when he formally appointed Gen. Sunthorn as NPKC head . |
| 16 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
| 17 | The night was still but a mist was descending slowly ; he stood looking towards platforms 2 and I when he suddenly heard footsteps on the ballast approaching him . |
| 18 | ROCKER Danny Bowles was convinced his career was over when he suddenly went stone deaf … hours before playing the biggest gig of his career . |
| 19 | Jackson — forced to pull out of last year 's World Championship final when he suddenly suffered shoulder spasms minutes before the race — declared : ‘ I wo n't make the same mistakes again . |
| 20 | All the same , John did soon find himself dancing with June Brae , as one of her partners in Assembly Ball , a ballet by Andrée Howard to Bizet 's Symphony in C , when he too joined Sadler 's Wells Opera-Ballet . |