Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an oasis Sweeney had discovered , when he penetrated beyond the ‘ material , literal-minded and visionless ’ . |
| 2 | Julian Lewis , from Caerphilly , Mid Glamorgan , was on a trail at Rhydyfelin when he toppled over the edge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Of course , he flung her off when he woke in the morning . |
| 5 | Kasuya 's fears proved to be well founded , and he dropped a bombshell at the 1989 meeting of the IWC 's Scientific Committee , when he revealed to the Small Cetaceans Subcommittee the staggering increase in the number of Dall 's porpoise killed in the harpoon fishery based on Iwate Prefecture . |
| 6 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 7 | The former Kray henchman dashed Fleet Street scribes ' hopes for a headline such as ‘ The Silence Of The Lambrianou ’ when he said of the underworld bloodletting : ‘ It was the biggest mistake the Krays made . ’ |
| 8 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 9 | Coach Phil Larder also pinpointed shortcomings in the Widnes tackling at Leeds when he said after the match : ‘ Some of our defence was unbelievably bad . |
| 10 | Hugh Gaitskell made the Tory Government 's case for it when he said in the House of Commons Defence debate : |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 15 | He was running sixth and looking good for a point after a tense battle in the final laps when he span off the rain-soaked track on the last lap . |
| 16 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 17 | When he passed through the doorway and closed the door behind him Paige could scarcely credit what had happened . |
| 18 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's an unexpected and welcome bonus , ’ declared Tom , happily , when he passed on the news . |
| 20 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 21 | His rise was secured when he wed into the British middle class by marrying army captain 's daughter Isabella Sarah Moorsom . |
| 22 | Alistair McAlpine , the merchant builder , had , when he served as the Party 's treasurer during the Thatcher years , begun the tradition of a lavish party to which only la creme had been invited . |
| 23 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 24 | When he returned to the theatre in 1983 for Chaplin , it was an almighty flop . |
| 25 | One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him . |
| 26 | When he returned to the UK he was eventually appointed to the board , but not , as might have been expected , in charge of the refinery side of the business . |
| 27 | When he returned to the States , Mueller lost no time in carrying out Cocello 's instructions to direct the phase-out of UK vehicle operations from Detroit , and to prepare detail plans to centralise European and world planning activities . |
| 28 | When he returned to the two worried women , decisions were made . |
| 29 | ‘ I just want to forget it all , ’ Murray reiterated , and in his agitation stuffed both letters together into his trouser pocket , where they remained , forgotten , until a month later when he returned to the London apartment , cramped but in a smart street in Chelsea , which his mother 's divorce settlement had provided . |
| 30 | El Cid himself fought like ten men and when he returned to the city he was bloody but victorious . |