Example sentences of "when he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other existences rub off on him , as can be shown at the grammatical level when he overhears a student and an army officer discussing the money-lender . |
| 2 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 3 | When he creates a dish he begins and carries on until instinctively he knows the dish has reached perfection . |
| 4 | when he grabs a thing , he really goes |
| 5 | The employer may be liable when he uses an employee with insufficient experience or training for a particular job and a fellow employee is injured as a result . |
| 6 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
| 7 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 8 | On 27 October 1846 he died in Preston when he burst a blood vessel during a fit of coughing , and was buried in St Peter 's churchyard , Preston . |
| 9 | When he suffered a relapse , his parents sent him to see Nolan . |
| 10 | Towards the end of September Patil 's position was weakened when he suffered a stroke , and in early October his predicament worsened when Advani 's Rath Yatra [ see above ] incited serious communal rioting in Karnataka which resulted in up to 50 deaths . |
| 11 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |
| 12 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |
| 13 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard today that Graeme Ralph ( 16 ) was waiting for the Inverness-London sleeper at Falkirk Grahamston station when he saw a man throwing a trolley from a bridge . |
| 14 | When he saw a gang trying to break into a car in Gateshead he and a neighbour chased the youths . |
| 15 | He set out on foot as it was getting dark , and had already walked three or four miles when he saw a cart , half-full of hay , by the side of the road . |
| 16 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 17 | Any vestige of friendship Grassi might have retained was to disappear when he saw a letter from Florence claiming that the Jesuits would be powerless to answer Galileo 's arguments . |
| 18 | On their way to the Hotel Colombi , their shoulders stooped to ward off the falling snow , Horowitz paused when he saw a car hire firm which was still open . |
| 19 | When he saw a car crash then catch fire outside his house , he ran out and managed to pull both driver and passenger free . |
| 20 | He had nearly reached the church when he saw a group of people approaching him . |
| 21 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 22 | Phil 's 3rd Big Break in showbiz came when he saw an ad in the back of a public school music paper . |
| 23 | It was his protector , his charm , you know , he touched it , turned it over in his pocket when he saw an omen . |
| 24 | He would pace the floor at meetings , pleading " Lord save souls " and leap over the seats shouting " Glory " when he saw an answer to his prayers . |
| 25 | Isaac Newton discovered gravity when he saw an apple fall to earth . |
| 26 | Security guard Ron Letts was crushed by a getaway van when he surprised a gang stealing scrap metal . |
| 27 | Korda Marshall , who was later to sign them to RCA , was one of the first to check them out when he attended a gig at London 's Bull And Gate . |
| 28 | If on the other hand he also had some burning when he passed a motion , his feet burned at night and his eyes were dry and burning , then it is clear that the sensation of ‘ burning ’ runs throughout many areas of the person 's body and so becomes characteristic of him as a whole , that is , it becomes General . |
| 29 | It is a measure of the enthusiasm which he observed that , when Sadler duly provided a reading-list — tactfully headed with the ‘ King 's Book ’ , an episcopal compilation in which Henry VIII had had a hand — he felt it necessary to advise caution ; religious works circulating too freely had their own dangers , as Henry had recognized , when he passed an act in that year forbidding the reading of them by unfit groups , women , artificers and labourers . |
| 30 | The Frenchman , who protested his innocence when he failed a drug test after winning the Tour of Wallonia in 1987 , is one of a number of leading riders to have failed a test , including Pedro Delgado , the Spaniard who was allowed to complete and win the Tour de France last year after a test revealed a substance banned by the International Olympic Committee but not by the International Cycling Union . |