Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also the incident when he hacked their left winger in the box , he never touched the ball . |
| 2 | KEVIN Brown left his keys in the ignition when he filled his new Porsche with petrol — and had the £50,000 car nicked while he paid the bill at Washington , Tyne and Wear . |
| 3 | Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions . |
| 4 | ‘ I work there , ’ he replied simply , and when he saw her astonished expression he set his glass down and laughed . |
| 5 | ‘ It wo n't be like Dunkirk this time , ’ Mr Redmond said to Anne when he saw her worried expression . |
| 6 | The boy who answered her knock was scrawny still , with dark hair and roguish eyes like Paddy 's , but his expression became cunning when he saw her neat dress and bulging bag . |
| 7 | When he saw her horrified expression , however , he stopped being a doctor and became quite fatherly instead . |
| 8 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 9 | How would Nigel react when he saw their small semi-detached , in a row of identical houses ? |
| 10 | Jacques Delors , European Commissioner , sparked the crisis when he prevented his Agricultural Commissioner Ray MacSharry signing an agreement . |
| 11 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |
| 12 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 13 | I tried not to cringe when he chewed my left ear making a noise like a pig in a trough . |
| 14 | Release could only come if and when he finished his long apologia . |
| 15 | If the Prince was going to be able to live off it when he finished his naval career and support the wife that everyone seemed so desperate for him to acquire , something radical had to be done . |
| 16 | However , Ronnie Tod 's one-man ambush failed when he dropped his tommy-gun magazine as he cocked the gun , and there was a burst of fire from the Germans . |
| 17 | When he flapped his stumpy wings and heaved his fat body up above the topmost branches , Cassowary was as pleased as pie . |
| 18 | Hankin is certain to announce a clear-out when he presents his retained list next week . |
| 19 | He bustled in one day , rubbing his hands , a fashion of his when he had something unpleasant on his mind . |
| 20 | Although he was obliged to ‘ share ’ Madeleine with Dunbar during lunch and after the game — which he found incredibly exciting — there were long periods during the chukkers when he had her undivided attention . |
| 21 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 22 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 23 | His attempt to win southern gaucho voters by playing up family links there backfired when he got his regional expressions muddled up . |
| 24 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |
| 25 | Dubcek sobbed when he told his stunned nation in an emotional radio address that he and fellow leaders of the Prague Spring had had to bow to overwhelming military force . |
| 26 | Michele Bou , 40 , who moved to Sorn Green , Glenrothes , about ten years ago when he married his Fife-born wife , Theresa , was flown by RAF helicopter to the neurological unit at Glasgow 's Southern General Hospital from Belford Hospital in Fort William on Sunday suffering from head injuries . |
| 27 | Feared as he was , the townsfolk had gathered to oppose him on several occasions , once when he affronted their God-fearing attitudes by ordering his men to rip the timber fan-faulting from the local church to use in the construction of Lambourn Palace . |
| 28 | As a matter of interest , this very organ of Amativeness was first brought to the attention of its discoverer , Professor Gall , when he noticed its unusual heat in a hysterical widow . |
| 29 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 30 | He walked away without responding to that and Ruth just hated it when he left her snappy bitchiness hanging in the air with no place to go . |