Example sentences of "when he [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This imposter played upon the credulity of the public , awe-struck with his powers , when he perambulated the town with chain and field book . ’ |
| 2 | Ormondroyd should have beaten him when he scooped the ball over the bar from six yards , then the goalkeeper ran to the edge of the penalty area to clear off the Leicester forward 's toes . |
| 3 | QUIZ king Tim Brownsett came top of the boffs once again when he scooped the Brain of North Staffordshire title for the second time . |
| 4 | When he unwound the rope from the cleat the bell rang once . |
| 5 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 6 | She slid them softly to touch his lower lip as he kissed her , and gasped when he eased the pressure and bit gently against the tip of one finger before recapturing her mouth in a slow drugging kiss that seemed to go on forever . |
| 7 | When he unfolded the map he saw it was completely unmarked . |
| 8 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 9 | MUCH was expected of George Bush when he assumed the US Presidency four years ago . |
| 10 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 12 | From the opposing camp , Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , was cheered when he likened the review report to In Place of Strife — the Wilson government 's attempt to curb union power . |
| 13 | He recalls that US researchers came up with a list of programmes of which they approved , including The Waltons , and those of which they disapproved , including the old Batman series , with its camp humour and captions saying ‘ Pow ’ when he punched the baddie . |
| 14 | But Jenna was too lost to reality to answer and when he unfastened the buttons on her blouse and found the high , taut peaks of her breasts she tossed her head from side to side in delight as his lips caressed them . |
| 15 | Consultant Peter Thompson destroyed a hesitant rally when he forecast the FT-SE share index ending the month at 2,100 or 2,200 points and sinking to 1,800 next year . |
| 16 | The results were equivocal , but to his surprise he found that when he grafted the tissue to the anterior margin of the limb there was a dramatic change in the development of the limb — a whole new set of digits developed : he had discovered the polarizing region . |
| 17 | Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers . |
| 18 | There was only one question in his mind when he read the papers : had they taken the story far enough ? |
| 19 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 20 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |
| 21 | In his biography Changing Patterns ( 1968 ) , Sir Macfarlane Burnet mentions his great interest in this section when he read the book on board ship from Australia to England in 1925 . |
| 22 | However , Gary is assured of a permanent place in Palace annals , because he became only our third player ever to appear in all the different numbered outfield shirts , when he wore the number three Jersey at Barnsley on 23 August 1986 . |
| 23 | He was right when he said the question I would have to answer most was ‘ When do we reach so and so ? ’ … and if I were a regular waiter he said I would know the answers , even though we 're thirty-five minutes earlier everywhere than the regular Canadian . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Bush sounded almost smug when he said the changes in Eastern Europe had come ‘ because America is strong and 40 years of perseverance and patience are finally paying off ’ . |
| 25 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 26 | And that 's not what Paul meant when he said the body of a what ! |
| 27 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 28 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
| 29 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 30 | This was recognized in the 1430s by the author of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , when he advocated the use of a trade embargo to force Flemish compliance with English policies ( 43 , pp.5–6 ) . |