Example sentences of "when he [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
| 3 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He will end with a third in the final chord , even when he omits the fifth , and both he and Crecquillon anticipate Palestrina in the climactic use of great descending scales often in thirds , sixths , or tenths — as at the end of his ‘ Jerusalem surge ’ : or the end of Crecquillon 's ‘ Ingemuit Susanna ’ . |
| 6 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 7 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 8 | Celtic pressed forward — and Collins made it a memorable night for them when he shot the third goal eleven minutes from time . |
| 9 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 10 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 11 | When he reached the first breakwater , Simon turned and waved . |
| 12 | He did not pause to rest when he reached the next hedge , but continued on , driving his exhausted body ruthlessly onwards . |
| 13 | She hoped he 'd stop when he reached the next supporting strut . |
| 14 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 15 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 16 | White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame . |
| 17 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 18 | You know it would be interesting to get Graham , when he does the next T Q M thing , to do it . |
| 19 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 20 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 21 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 22 | Dr Ryan took as his theme ‘ The challenge of financing air transportation growth ’ when he delivered the 50th lecture commemorating the life and work of Sir Sefton Brancker . |
| 23 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 24 | This was the stark warning given by Professor David Harvey of Newcastle University , when he presented the first in a series of Northern Foods ' milk industry papers . |
| 25 | There was a pause when he ended the First Mystery . |
| 26 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 27 | When he emerged the next morning he had changed . |
| 28 | When he emerged the next morning he found not uncertainty but widespread consternation . |
| 29 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 30 | Mark Farrelly 's winning streak in the 125 series began at Desertmartin when he won the second race . |