Example sentences of "when he [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 2 | Of course , he flung her off when he woke in the morning . |
| 3 | Hugh Gaitskell made the Tory Government 's case for it when he said in the House of Commons Defence debate : |
| 4 | On the following day , Lewis returned to the position of before the competition , when he said in the House that the land authorized under the 1855 Act ‘ would be sufficient for the site of the two offices which it was now contemplated to erect ’ . |
| 5 | In my opinion Lord Roskill was undoubtedly right when he said in the course of the passage quoted that the assumption by the defendant of any of the rights of an owner could amount to an appropriation within the meaning of section 3(1) , and that the removal of an article from the shelf and the changing of the price label on it constituted the assumption of one of the rights of the owner and hence an appropriation within the meaning of the subsection . |
| 6 | One of my colleagues , John Savage , put it forcibly when he said in the programme that pure road racing — that is racing on public roads — was at the crossroads because of lack of numbers and I 'm inclined to agree with him . |
| 7 | When he returned in the spring of 1923 , Chagall found a new lock on the door , a new occupant inside and all the paintings gone . |
| 8 | The ā gri took his mastiff mongrel together with a parcel of rice for the dhāmi : when he returned in the evening he said that the dog was no longer afflicted . |
| 9 | When he looked in the tomb he had not really noticed the body was missing . |
| 10 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 11 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |
| 12 | World record-holder Lewis — who lost his chance of an Olympic 100-metre hat-trick when he flopped in the American trials — will collide with Christie in Zurich on August 19 . |
| 13 | DERBY favourite Tenby was not doped when he flopped in the Epsom Classic , the Jockey Club announced today . |
| 14 | When he wrote in the last fragments |
| 15 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 16 | The need for such a policy was recognized by Adam Smith when he wrote in the Wealth of Nations in 1776 : ‘ People of the same trade seldom meet together , even for merriment and diversion , but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public , or in some instances to raise prices . ’ |
| 17 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |
| 18 | He won every regional heat when he lived in the South and says lots of familiar faces reappear in the competition each year . |
| 19 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 20 | Sampson became the second ( Marsden was the first ) Yorkshire player to represent the Players against the Gentlemen when he played in the Lord 's fixture of 1841 . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |
| 22 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 23 | It took Mark Roe some three years to win his second Tour event , but when he triumphed in the Lancome , he was obviously overjoyed . |
| 24 | When Joe was in the shop , the first think he did every morning was to place a copy of Irish Fairy Tales , by W.B. Yeats , in a corner of the window ; when he left in the evening or for lunch , the book was removed . |
| 25 | When he went in the Dolphinarium I got the bus up to Devil 's Dyke and had my sandwiches up there . |
| 26 | The cafe was called Mary 's Pantry , blacked out , but when he went in the place was bright with Christmas decorations and holly . |
| 27 | When he walked the perimeter fence , when he worked at the bench with the wood that would become a chair 's leg , when he ate in the Kitchen , when he lay on the top tier of the bunk , he was alive and alert . |
| 28 | When he checked in the new phone book to see that his entry was there he did not , of course , look through all the Hugheses . |
| 29 | When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move . |
| 30 | A boy who was one of the first British babies born under water in a ‘ birthing tub ’ drowned when he fell in the River Avon , a Plymouth inquest heard yesterday … |