Example sentences of "when he [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was flying about 20 minutes behind the Aero Club 's chief instructor when he radioed to Newcastle Airport air traffic control that he was descending to below 1,000 feet because of thick fog . |
| 2 | When he said to Cassin " Nous sommes la France " , he did not mean it in a rhetorical sense . |
| 3 | That ability to build and keep a good team explains why , when he sold to Shandwick in 1989 , the performance-related deal valued PRCS at £5 million plus and Murphy at more than £2.5 million . |
| 4 | If under the contract between A and B property had not yet passed to B ( see Chapter 3 ) , then A was still the owner when he sold to C. Still being the owner , A could pass that ownership to C. One has to examine the two contracts , B's and C's , and find out under which of them property was to pass first . |
| 5 | When he returned to Danzig Greisser was treated as a conquering hero , and was greeted by cheering crowds at the railway station . |
| 6 | The bronze versions are very recent and faithful to Ernst 's instructions : when he returned to France after the war , he had planned to work on the project but did not manage to reach agreement with the current owners . |
| 7 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |
| 8 | Climbing became his passion when he returned to school . |
| 9 | Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery . |
| 10 | This refusal to fit in with the system continued when he returned to London , having jumped ship after a series of incidents — chopping down the house of someone 's aunt ; being technical supervisor on a failed bank robbery — had made him somewhat too conspicuous to the New Zealand authorities . |
| 11 | Another favourite at our CBR recital series was a young pianist from Winnipeg , Jack Henderson , who became a great friend and companion to Arthur Benjamin , and who accompanied him when he returned to London some years later . |
| 12 | When he returned to London it would take months of arguing with some scrupulous clerk of the Exchequer to get it reimbursed . |
| 13 | Pius XII also blessed a rosary and gave it to him — when he returned to London , he placed it on his mantelpiece with other memorabilia . |
| 14 | When he returned to London , Cyril Connolly gave a party to celebrate the prize and during the course of the evening Eliot sang " Under the bamboo tree " from Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 15 | ‘ Mainly cooks and cripples , ’ he said cheerfully , and the family hoped that this would mean that he stayed in England , but when he returned to London after his leave the battalion was made up to strength and moved to Howick in Scotland . |
| 16 | This poor bastard made the error of bowing before the rebel leader so , when he returned to London , Henry had him drawn , quartered , disembowelled and his balls cut off . |
| 17 | He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London . |
| 18 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
| 19 | Nor was he given an opportunity to present his own view of feeling in Washington when he returned to London . |
| 20 | His introduction to the greater world during his London visit was important in shaping his liberal sympathies , and when he returned to Stowey in March 1791 , his relatives were shocked to find him overflowing with French Revolutionary politics as well as other democratic heresies . |
| 21 | When he returned to Aberdeen towards the end of 1785 , he was appointed physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary . |
| 22 | He was courted by a number of them when he returned to South Africa this Christmas , his first visit home since he was exiled along with his parents as a youngster . |
| 23 | When he returned to England , medical journals steadfastly refused to publish any account of his work . |
| 24 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 25 | When he returned to England in the middle of December , the winter again affected him ; he contracted bronchitis ten days after his arrival and suffered a further three attacks during January 1951 . |
| 26 | When he returned to England as king in 1274 Grandson emerged as ‘ one of Edward 's most trusted henchmen ’ ( Prestwich ) . |
| 27 | He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence . |
| 28 | His expression left Polly in no doubt that someone would pay for that mistake when he returned to England . |
| 29 | When he returned to Oxford in 1773 it was with the intention of claiming the first suitable benefice in the gift of New College to become vacant . |
| 30 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |