Example sentences of "when he [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long day is n't it , when he goes at half past seven in the morning . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | When he returned at 8.45 p.m. , he was said to have been ‘ accompanied by a member of the Board , Detective Wells , five constables , four men and two medical men ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 6 | When he came at last , he saw it at once . |
| 7 | He had a heart attack when he died at fifty . |
| 8 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 11 | Boro will win automatic promotion if they beat Grimsby and Wolves , a situation Lawrence would have settled for when he arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 12 | When he arrived at head quarters he discovered that he had , by mistake , been given a ‘ slave ’ disc — one with copyguards built in . |
| 13 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 14 | Well yes and er so after that , you see , when he retired at sixty . |