Example sentences of "when he [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally had a nightmare about the loss of her , at least it supplied him with a landscape to imagine her in again ; there was some spasm of life in that , he supposed . |
| 2 | When he finally lowered the heavy bulk of his sweating body onto the bed beside her , his roughened hands pressed her small thighs wide and he forced himself into her immediately , ignoring her repeated cries of pain . |
| 3 | When he finally reached the trough , it was by willpower alone . |
| 4 | When he finally reached the house , he risked a quick look inside . |
| 5 | When he finally reached the conclusion that the party itself had abandoned those beliefs , he left . |
| 6 | When he finally reached the doorway of the hut , he could see Alex Household slumped against it , the arm holding the gun limp at his side . |
| 7 | When he finally rejoined the others he was carrying several samples of rock , and there was very little light left . |
| 8 | How much would it hurt him , she was wondering , when he finally discovered the truth about his fiancée ? |
| 9 | And when he finally produced a son in series two , you did n't so much ask ‘ when ? ’ as ‘ how ? ’ |
| 10 | When he finally launched the attack , he did not inform the Central Committee in Moscow . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that Uncle was a cautious old devil and — ’ he looked away ‘ — he got the impression I was a bit of a spendthrift because — well , because I used to get through my allowance pretty rapidly when I was away at school , and … oh , hell , he wanted to make sure I was going to be dull and sensible about all that money when he finally kicked the bucket . |
| 12 | When he finally left the bikes , he ambled down to the stream just where we had been and sat in the water to cool off . |
| 13 | When he finally left the cast in 1963 , that friendship seemed as strong as ever . |
| 14 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 15 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 16 | Mr Heathcliff asked me rudely , when he finally entered the room . |
| 17 | It took the usual twenty minutes , and , when he finally entered the conference hall , the motion in favour of Europe was being moved by Gerry Malone , a personable Scot who was now the MP for Winchester . |
| 18 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 19 | PRINCE Edward celebrates 25 years of the International Boat Show when he officially opens the event in Southampton today . |
| 20 | PRINCE Edward celebrated 25 years of the International Boat Show when he officially opens the event in Southampton . |
| 21 | Union representatives at Castle View House in Runcorn handed a letter to Mr Hunt when he officially opened the new £15m building . |
| 22 | The object is to give the intrant an opportunity of acquiring some familiarity with the running of a law office , so that when he later hears a reference to ‘ title deeds ’ or the ‘ Sheriff Clerk 's Office ’ he will have some notion of what is meant . |
| 23 | When he later took the trouble to add up the bill he discovered that the actual cost was Fr 1,481 , around £140 : an overcharge of £40 . |
| 24 | It would fall to its previous level when he later made the transfer to his building society . |
| 25 | When he later produced a series of outstanding tragic works , what he managed to do , in effect , was to bring about the transition from crude medieval drama towards the more sustained literary achievement of the Renaissance . |
| 26 | When he barely had a life in his old home . |
| 27 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 28 | " Thank you , " I said confidently , and glared at the man when he discreetly placed a huge jug of iced water at my elbow . |
| 29 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 30 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |