Example sentences of "when he [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe you should talk ter Albert Buller when 'e calls next time , ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | Since that day in August when he had first visited the house up the valley , he had , during the past ten weeks , made a dozen return visits . |
| 3 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 4 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 5 | The doctor asked when he had last had intercourse . |
| 6 | Dalgliesh could n't remember when he had last seen the Berowne house . |
| 7 | She wondered when he had last had a bath . |
| 8 | He remembered when he had last seen Lord Dungannon . |
| 9 | Why should she care whether he was tanned , or when he had last been to the barber ? |
| 10 | Julius could n't remember when he had last been hit by such a wave of anger . |
| 11 | Charlie could n't remember when he had last been given an order , let alone obeyed one . |
| 12 | I do n't know when he had last closed his eyes with a clear conscience but he did that day . |
| 13 | ‘ Today , he was able to be dropped in behind , whereas last year when he ran third in the Tiffany Highflyer , he was drawn on the far side in a 30-runner race and Steve [ Cauthen ] had to ride him handy to the pace , ’ Stoute said . |
| 14 | He only returned in November last year when he ran sixth behind Gold Options , appropriately enough at Punchestown . |
| 15 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 16 | JOHN Harding proved he was top of the spots when he came first in Alexandra Pottery 's annual dominoes competition . |
| 17 | For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman . |
| 18 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |
| 19 | JIMMY McCRAE , of Scotland , won the 2,200-mile round-Britain Autoglass Tour by 22 minutes at Brands Hatch yesterday when he finished second to Wales 's David Llewellin in the final stage . |
| 20 | Scotland 's Jim Moodie kept alive his hopes of deposing McElnea when he finished second and fourth , but his British-built Crighton Norton had no answer to the speed of the best Japanese machines . |
| 21 | Warrington professional Derrick Cooper completed his 13th season on the tour with £72,000 in official prize money for 70th place in the order , an improvement of 13 places from last year but well behind his best season , 1989 , when he finished 19th . |
| 22 | MARK Blundell produced the race of his life in South Africa today when he finished third on his debut with the Ligier Renault team behind triple world champions Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna . |
| 23 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 24 | Sam Torrance joined the elite band of Euro-millionaires when he finished third in the Panasonic European Open at Walton Heath . |