Example sentences of "when he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
2 | When he launched a well-timed attack on the greed of the boss class and their salary increases he was again made to feel that he had spoken out of turn . |
3 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
4 | Anger and impulse do n't seem to be a part of his make-up : when he parodies the swaggering Hotspur , we can already see the fastidious distaste for self-dramatisation that will make him disown Falstaff , just as , when he imitates his father , we can see the strength this quiet man derives from the stately deliberation of majesty . |
5 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
6 | Campra based his key plans on the Lullian model even when he assumed an Italian manner , as may be seen in ‘ L'Italie , ‘ Orfeo negli Inferni ’ the ‘ Motet a la maniere italienne ’ and the immensely popular Les fêtes vénitiennes ( 1710 ) . |
7 | She was roused from this reverie seconds later when he gulped the last of the juice and said , ‘ I know what Faye 's ‘ few minutes ’ mean . |
8 | Nicol , who escaped with a close call when he sliced an attempted clearance close to his own goal in normal time , suffered a costly relapse 10 minutes into the extra period . |
9 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
10 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
11 | Ambling into the nets , he had barely taken guard when he suffered the one embarrassment all England batsmen fear on overseas tours . |
12 | He has stopped driving out to Wellport but I bet he misses our time there , its vigourlessness so safe and morally neutral , when he wore the passive uniform of old age . |
13 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
14 | A recent anthology on spirituality has a quotation by Martin Buber from Rabbi Zusya when he said a short while before his death , " In the world to come I shall not be asked why were you not Moses ? |
15 | He knew he had simplified the matter when he said the six thousand would be sent abroad to the War — simplified it and coloured it blood-red . |
16 | His first realization that he was not alone came when he booked a return Business-Class ticket at the Sabena counter . |
17 | Wyss , in the lead , was only some fifty feet from the top when he saw a tiny movement in the snow ahead of them . |
18 | He was approaching the track leading to the bell tower , a dark grim silhouette in the moonlight , when he saw a great glow of light to his right in the distance . |
19 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
20 | In the 25th minute Ferdinand was again unlucky when he saw a deft flick picked off by Hooper . |
21 | His concern was heightened when he saw a local trouble-maker , a man called Slatter . |
22 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
23 | A cry of horror came from the artist when he saw the terrible face in the portrait . |
24 | His compassion intensified when he saw the other inhabitant of the bed — a small , shabby teddy-bear . |
25 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
26 | The Merkut clan was camped along the curve of a small lake , and when he saw the first yurts Burun kicked his st'lyan into a gallop , his spirit soaring with anticipation . |
27 | when he saw the stranger change into Doctor Jekyll in front of his eyes . |
28 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
29 | Look at the splendid sight , ’ he waved his hand , just as Mr Blackwell the owner appeared , but who almost disappeared again when he saw the vast crowd about to troop up and down his narrow staircase and crowded rooms . |
30 | Alejandro , fed up with Raimundo 's laziness and his exorbitant whining demands , was put in such a good mood when he saw the black eye that he agreed that Perdita could take over the breaking of little Tero . |