Example sentences of "when he [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 2 | When he made it big , in the mid-Seventies , Dury was a 35-year-old former art college lecturer in callipers . |
| 3 | He came round to find a hostile Maltese crowd around him , but when he made it clear that he was English the mood changed . |
| 4 | Houghton traced every curve and twist of the prints , comparing them beneath his microscope when he felt it necessary . |
| 5 | Dr McGarry claimed Alliance had been snubbed by the US visitors and said : ‘ Mr Morrison 's credibility as a supposedly independent observer must be called into question when he finds it important to meet Sinn Fein , a party which appears to condone the murder of Irish people , but not the Alliance Party , the foremost advocate of peace . ’ |
| 6 | You feel like a climber who unties the rope when he finds it irksome and , because of your carelessness , someone behind slips and falls to his death . ’ |
| 7 | When he wants it all done by . |
| 8 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 9 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |
| 10 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 11 | So her former connection with Rustenburg , and the presence there of his brother , may have been among the considerations that prompted Herbert Cranko to choose that town when he found it necessary to settle down after a roving life . |
| 12 | It would be an error , certainly , to underestimate the skill of the provincial craftsman when he found it necessary to improvise foreign shades and highlights in local stone . |