Example sentences of "when he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This imposter played upon the credulity of the public , awe-struck with his powers , when he perambulated the town with chain and field book . ’ |
| 2 | Ormondroyd should have beaten him when he scooped the ball over the bar from six yards , then the goalkeeper ran to the edge of the penalty area to clear off the Leicester forward 's toes . |
| 3 | QUIZ king Tim Brownsett came top of the boffs once again when he scooped the Brain of North Staffordshire title for the second time . |
| 4 | The reason is that Younger is destined for the Upper House anyway — when he inherits the title of his father , Viscount Younger , 85 . |
| 5 | When he unwound the rope from the cleat the bell rang once . |
| 6 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 7 | She slid them softly to touch his lower lip as he kissed her , and gasped when he eased the pressure and bit gently against the tip of one finger before recapturing her mouth in a slow drugging kiss that seemed to go on forever . |
| 8 | When he unfolded the map he saw it was completely unmarked . |
| 9 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 10 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |
| 11 | It 's all going to come out , Josh , every bit , when he tells the police what he and Saul were fighting over . |
| 12 | In the absence of express provisions in the contract , s 35 of the SGA makes this difficult for him , since it provides that he is deemed to have accepted goods either when he tells the seller that he has done so , or when he does an act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller . |
| 13 | Gandhi , however , does not conceive of God in this way even when he uses the term in a personal sense . |
| 14 | So when he uses the term utilitarianism he takes it to mean eudaemonistic consequentialism . |
| 15 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 16 | MUCH was expected of George Bush when he assumed the US Presidency four years ago . |
| 17 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 19 | For example , if the accused obtains ownership through deception but the owner retains possession or control , he will commit theft when he assumes the rights of the owner . |
| 20 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 21 | From the opposing camp , Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , was cheered when he likened the review report to In Place of Strife — the Wilson government 's attempt to curb union power . |
| 22 | Thus he ‘ adopts ’ the transaction when he re-sells the goods or when he pledges them with a pawnbroker ( Kirkham v. Attenborough , 1897 C.A. ) . |
| 23 | He recalls that US researchers came up with a list of programmes of which they approved , including The Waltons , and those of which they disapproved , including the old Batman series , with its camp humour and captions saying ‘ Pow ’ when he punched the baddie . |
| 24 | But Jenna was too lost to reality to answer and when he unfastened the buttons on her blouse and found the high , taut peaks of her breasts she tossed her head from side to side in delight as his lips caressed them . |
| 25 | Consultant Peter Thompson destroyed a hesitant rally when he forecast the FT-SE share index ending the month at 2,100 or 2,200 points and sinking to 1,800 next year . |
| 26 | The results were equivocal , but to his surprise he found that when he grafted the tissue to the anterior margin of the limb there was a dramatic change in the development of the limb — a whole new set of digits developed : he had discovered the polarizing region . |
| 27 | Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers . |
| 28 | There was only one question in his mind when he read the papers : had they taken the story far enough ? |
| 29 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 30 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |