Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long day is n't it , when he goes at half past seven in the morning . |
| 2 | I always try and go with him when he goes to medical conferences — now we hardly ever take work away from home if it means we ca n't both go . ’ |
| 3 | and he 's still got something to do with the union , so what he did , when he goes to these meetings he said to the , ah you bloke at Nissan how about getting us round |
| 4 | The useful information in this book is shot through with the engaging assertion that the books are biographical and that when he journeyed to some of the scenes of Hornblower 's exploits the author was truly following in the steps of his hero . |
| 5 | He was registered as ‘ plebeian ’ when matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1651 , and as a sizar when he migrated to Catharine Hall , Cambridge , in 1654 . |
| 6 | Frost , one might think , righted the balance a little when he said on British television some years ago that diplomacy was : ‘ The art of letting somebody else have your way . ’ |
| 7 | When he knew for certain that a particular shooting or explosion was due to the very cell that he controlled , he consoled himself that it was the will of Allah . |
| 8 | But when he opted for either of John Hay 's horses , they argued : Johnson had to settle for the grey owned by Laughland Vass . |
| 9 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 10 | The Times , once an ardent supporter of Chadwick , was particularly vicious in its appraisal of his administrative career , chortling that Mr Chadwick would receive his final reward ‘ when he falls at last a sanitary martyr to a choked two-inch pipe drain and is carried by policemen … to an extramural cemetery ’ . |
| 11 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 12 | When he failed to this , he attempted to enter through the sun roof . |
| 13 | When he returned at 8.45 p.m. , he was said to have been ‘ accompanied by a member of the Board , Detective Wells , five constables , four men and two medical men ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you , ’ Maggie said when he returned with two thimble glasses of whisky . |
| 15 | When he returned in 1945 with a wide-eyed English wife , something in his spirit had matured . |
| 16 | However , when he returned in 1908 to the foreign ministry in St Petersburg he was struck by finding there a considerable number of women typists who " filled the offices , walked arm in arm in the corridors , and flirted with everybody " . |
| 17 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 18 | This intimate connection between the metaphysics of death and the politics of life is precisely what Nizan has in mind when he refers to revolutionary literature as " the modern form of tragedy " . |
| 19 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 20 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 21 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 22 | When he applied to one college for a teaching job he was told bluntly they would have nothing to do with blind people . |
| 23 | AMERICAN Dan O'Brien yesterday broke Daley Thompson 's eight-year-old world decathlon record when he finished with 8,896 points in an invitation meeting in Talence , France . |
| 24 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 25 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 26 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 27 | Things began to go wrong when he got into bad company . |
| 28 | And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village . |
| 29 | I just feel he gave up when he got in that home . |
| 30 | When he got within twenty yards of her , something spooked him and he gunned the hog , speeding past her . |