Example sentences of "when he [verb] a " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he creates a dish he begins and carries on until instinctively he knows the dish has reached perfection . |
| 5 | when he grabs a thing , he really goes |
| 6 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
| 7 | On 27 October 1846 he died in Preston when he burst a blood vessel during a fit of coughing , and was buried in St Peter 's churchyard , Preston . |
| 8 | When he suffered a relapse , his parents sent him to see Nolan . |
| 9 | Arthur B had just passed retirement age when he suffered a very severe stroke . |
| 10 | Towards the end of September Patil 's position was weakened when he suffered a stroke , and in early October his predicament worsened when Advani 's Rath Yatra [ see above ] incited serious communal rioting in Karnataka which resulted in up to 50 deaths . |
| 11 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |
| 12 | A recent anthology on spirituality has a quotation by Martin Buber from Rabbi Zusya when he said a short while before his death , " In the world to come I shall not be asked why were you not Moses ? |
| 13 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
| 14 | His first realization that he was not alone came when he booked a return Business-Class ticket at the Sabena counter . |
| 15 | Wyss , in the lead , was only some fifty feet from the top when he saw a tiny movement in the snow ahead of them . |
| 16 | His concern was heightened when he saw a local trouble-maker , a man called Slatter . |
| 17 | On their way to the Hotel Colombi , their shoulders stooped to ward off the falling snow , Horowitz paused when he saw a car hire firm which was still open . |
| 18 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 19 | One July day in 1943 at Blaconsthorpe , Norfolk , a born-deaf farm labourer named Kenneth Andrews was walking home from work accompanied by his wife , and carrying his young baby when he saw a R.A.F. Typhoon fighter plane crash in flames . |
| 20 | When he saw a gang trying to break into a car in Gateshead he and a neighbour chased the youths . |
| 21 | In the 25th minute Ferdinand was again unlucky when he saw a deft flick picked off by Hooper . |
| 22 | He was approaching the track leading to the bell tower , a dark grim silhouette in the moonlight , when he saw a great glow of light to his right in the distance . |
| 23 | Any vestige of friendship Grassi might have retained was to disappear when he saw a letter from Florence claiming that the Jesuits would be powerless to answer Galileo 's arguments . |
| 24 | He set out on foot as it was getting dark , and had already walked three or four miles when he saw a cart , half-full of hay , by the side of the road . |
| 25 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
| 26 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 27 | He had nearly reached the church when he saw a group of people approaching him . |
| 28 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said McInnes with the sort of grin Colonel Sanders gave when he saw a ‘ Free Range Eggs ’ sign . |
| 29 | When he saw a car crash then catch fire outside his house , he ran out and managed to pull both driver and passenger free . |
| 30 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |