Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Wesley recollected how when he read Holy Living and Holy Dying at the age of twenty-two ‘ instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts and words and actions ’ . |
| 2 | He also liked it when he saw other men around the ringside looking at her approvingly . |
| 3 | Les Aspin , a member of the US Congress and chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee , said he had a ‘ nasty surprise ’ when he saw Soviet tanks fitted with the multi-layer reactive armour during a visit to the Ukraine in August . |
| 4 | Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off . |
| 5 | Chinese Vice-Premier Tian Jiyun visited Japan from Dec. 2-11 , when he requested additional aid to help strengthen China 's agricultural sector . |
| 6 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 7 | Gorbachev undermined the position of the Politburo when he transferred executive power to the presidency , advised by the presidential councils . |
| 8 | Deny the humanity of any man — even when he commits inhuman acts — and you diminish your own . |
| 9 | Further financial difficulties arose when he signed Swedish quadruplets Hans , Benny , Bjorn and Agnetha Larsson . |
| 10 | Mr Peter Sutherland will end a 20-year teaching career when he takes early retirement from Tilery Primary School in the summer , at the same time as Mr James Burton retires from Bishopsgarth School after ten years in the profession . |
| 11 | And Salsburg found that , when he applied statistical tests to the NCI data , between 3 and 70 per cent of the compounds either caused or protected against cancer , depending on the stringency of the decision rule used . |
| 12 | This change made compromise less attractive for the complainant when he had strong evidence . |
| 13 | Very good at setting up cars , he was less fortunate in his choice of engineers and , when he had good ones , did not know how to leave well enough alone . |
| 14 | He performed best when he had well-written lines and was acting with someone he respected . |
| 15 | Even when he had clear sight of goal , England 's number two goalkeeper saved with his legs from his 44th minute close-range cracker . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for their homelessness is that the Prime Minister , when he had ministerial responsibility for social security , changed the rules and regulations . |
| 17 | Brutus is though apprehensive that Caesar could change his personality when he got total power . |
| 18 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 19 | And the eighth seed 's hopes of an easy Centre Court opening were dashed when he landed awkward German Bernd Karbacher , ranked 36 in the world , in today 's draw . |
| 20 | As this might be my last opportunity to draw the attention of my hon. Friend the Minister to the topic of the proposed M12 between Chelmsford and the M25 , I seek his assurance that when he receives alternative proposals for that motorway 's line of route , he will take into account that such a motorway may not be required . |
| 21 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |
| 22 | Well what about those people who are morally worthy , I take it when he says low class , he does n't mean low moral class , but mean low social class as well he probably means both things actually . |
| 23 | BILLY Bonds delivered the message the rest of the Premiership is desperate to hear when he left Old Trafford insisting : Manchester United are not invincible . |
| 24 | When he acquired new territory in 869 , some twenty new mints were set up there . |
| 25 | Tolkien did best when he kept mythic invention on the borderline between literal story and a wider suggestiveness ( Fangorn , Bombadil , Lúthien , Roads and Rings ) ; too conscious an approach to ‘ mythopoeia ’ would have ended only in allegory . |
| 26 | We went through days with him when he met African trades union seminars and black nationalist leaders ; Cabinet Ministers ; some of the most shell-backed Right-wingers and some of the most outspoken men of the Left . |
| 27 | ‘ He was a thirty-two-year-old widower when he met nineteen-year-old Lucia Lucchesi and fell deeply in love with her . |
| 28 | He could feel a slight erection coming on — the sort he had in bars when he met good-time girls . |
| 29 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that when he announces new proposals for deregulation he will ensure that he and his officials have consulted the Minister for small businesses to see that every effort is made to take into account the needs of small businesses and that deregulation , wherever possible , is increased , so that small businesses can get special exemptions where possible from what can be very complicated regulations and procedures that the Government introduce ? |
| 30 | IT was Ballymoney who started the game in livelier fashion and with only ten minutes played Willie McNeill almost headed them into the lead when he made perfect contact with McKendry 's cross only to see his header strike the woodwork . |