Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times , once an ardent supporter of Chadwick , was particularly vicious in its appraisal of his administrative career , chortling that Mr Chadwick would receive his final reward ‘ when he falls at last a sanitary martyr to a choked two-inch pipe drain and is carried by policemen … to an extramural cemetery ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 3 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 4 | He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs . |
| 5 | When he came at last , he saw it at once . |
| 6 | But the 25-year-old flyer made the most of his come-back chance when he starred in last weekend 's win at Derby . |
| 7 | He sighed heavily , and Belinda was about to ask what was wrong — after all , they were still friends , in spite of what she had seen in the garden tonight , and her revelation of feeling should n't dictate this new reticence — when he spoke at last . |