Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The useful information in this book is shot through with the engaging assertion that the books are biographical and that when he journeyed to some of the scenes of Hornblower 's exploits the author was truly following in the steps of his hero . |
| 2 | He was registered as ‘ plebeian ’ when matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1651 , and as a sizar when he migrated to Catharine Hall , Cambridge , in 1654 . |
| 3 | Frost , one might think , righted the balance a little when he said on British television some years ago that diplomacy was : ‘ The art of letting somebody else have your way . ’ |
| 4 | When he knew for certain that a particular shooting or explosion was due to the very cell that he controlled , he consoled himself that it was the will of Allah . |
| 5 | But when he opted for either of John Hay 's horses , they argued : Johnson had to settle for the grey owned by Laughland Vass . |
| 6 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 7 | When he failed to this , he attempted to enter through the sun roof . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , ’ Maggie said when he returned with two thimble glasses of whisky . |
| 10 | When he returned in 1945 with a wide-eyed English wife , something in his spirit had matured . |
| 11 | However , when he returned in 1908 to the foreign ministry in St Petersburg he was struck by finding there a considerable number of women typists who " filled the offices , walked arm in arm in the corridors , and flirted with everybody " . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 14 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 15 | When he applied to one college for a teaching job he was told bluntly they would have nothing to do with blind people . |
| 16 | AMERICAN Dan O'Brien yesterday broke Daley Thompson 's eight-year-old world decathlon record when he finished with 8,896 points in an invitation meeting in Talence , France . |
| 17 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 18 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 19 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 20 | Things began to go wrong when he got into bad company . |
| 21 | And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village . |
| 22 | I just feel he gave up when he got in that home . |
| 23 | When he got within twenty yards of her , something spooked him and he gunned the hog , speeding past her . |
| 24 | I tried to leave him once when he got like this . |
| 25 | And in view of the information he had when he went to London for a meeting last Wednesday and that was when he consulted with other people deciding that he should offer a nought percent increase . |
| 26 | For all the choice of possible brides he may have had , William picked one very near home indeed : when he married in 1872 at St James , Clerkenwell , it was to his own cousin , Mary Ann Keziah Parkes , daughter of James Parkes , brass-rule maker — himself the brother of William 's mother Elizabeth . |
| 27 | He took holy orders as a deacon in 1826 , and was immediately appointed junior chaplain of Wadham College , but had to relinquish the post when he married in 1831 . |
| 28 | And lest there be any misunderstanding as to the intensity of the attachment Lugard had in mind , it may be noted that his thinking revealed itself quite clearly on the subject of loyalty when he wrote of military matters and the secret of command . |
| 29 | The young veteran Ronald Ridenhour , whose conscience first led him to question former comrades , was racked by horror at discovering the crimes his friends had committed but felt no fear of official reprisal when he wrote to 30 Congressmen . |
| 30 | The modern concept was summed up by the Earl of Radnor , Chairman of the Forestry Commission , when he wrote in 1961 : |