Example sentences of "when he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other existences rub off on him , as can be shown at the grammatical level when he overhears a student and an army officer discussing the money-lender . |
| 2 | ‘ This imposter played upon the credulity of the public , awe-struck with his powers , when he perambulated the town with chain and field book . ’ |
| 3 | Ormondroyd should have beaten him when he scooped the ball over the bar from six yards , then the goalkeeper ran to the edge of the penalty area to clear off the Leicester forward 's toes . |
| 4 | QUIZ king Tim Brownsett came top of the boffs once again when he scooped the Brain of North Staffordshire title for the second time . |
| 5 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 6 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 7 | When he launched a well-timed attack on the greed of the boss class and their salary increases he was again made to feel that he had spoken out of turn . |
| 8 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
| 9 | When he creates a dish he begins and carries on until instinctively he knows the dish has reached perfection . |
| 10 | The reason is that Younger is destined for the Upper House anyway — when he inherits the title of his father , Viscount Younger , 85 . |
| 11 | when he grabs a thing , he really goes |
| 12 | When he unwound the rope from the cleat the bell rang once . |
| 13 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 14 | She slid them softly to touch his lower lip as he kissed her , and gasped when he eased the pressure and bit gently against the tip of one finger before recapturing her mouth in a slow drugging kiss that seemed to go on forever . |
| 15 | When he unfolded the map he saw it was completely unmarked . |
| 16 | Anger and impulse do n't seem to be a part of his make-up : when he parodies the swaggering Hotspur , we can already see the fastidious distaste for self-dramatisation that will make him disown Falstaff , just as , when he imitates his father , we can see the strength this quiet man derives from the stately deliberation of majesty . |
| 17 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 18 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
| 19 | It 's all going to come out , Josh , every bit , when he tells the police what he and Saul were fighting over . |
| 20 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |
| 21 | In the absence of express provisions in the contract , s 35 of the SGA makes this difficult for him , since it provides that he is deemed to have accepted goods either when he tells the seller that he has done so , or when he does an act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller . |
| 22 | The employer may be liable when he uses an employee with insufficient experience or training for a particular job and a fellow employee is injured as a result . |
| 23 | Gandhi , however , does not conceive of God in this way even when he uses the term in a personal sense . |
| 24 | So when he uses the term utilitarianism he takes it to mean eudaemonistic consequentialism . |
| 25 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 26 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 27 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 28 | MUCH was expected of George Bush when he assumed the US Presidency four years ago . |
| 29 | Campra based his key plans on the Lullian model even when he assumed an Italian manner , as may be seen in ‘ L'Italie , ‘ Orfeo negli Inferni ’ the ‘ Motet a la maniere italienne ’ and the immensely popular Les fêtes vénitiennes ( 1710 ) . |
| 30 | She was roused from this reverie seconds later when he gulped the last of the juice and said , ‘ I know what Faye 's ‘ few minutes ’ mean . |