Example sentences of "when he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Guy Robert will share his skills with us when he creates perfume as our own particular poetry .
2 Among the Hwicce , Osric ruled as king ( HE IV , 23 ) from the mid-670s when he granted land to the abbess of Bath ( CS 43 : S 51 ) , and Oshere granted land as king of the Hwicce to Cuthswith , abbess of Bath , in 693 ( CS 85 : S 53 ) .
3 He was on latitude fifty-six , somewhere to the south of Heard Island , when he sighted wreckage on the water ahead .
4 This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School .
5 However , when he assumed office in November 1963 , President Johnson transformed the relationship with Israel .
6 The beginning of the text is evidently concerned with interpreting the testator 's intention : when he said scio did he really mean to bind his freedman to perform a trust ?
7 Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death .
8 So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected .
9 When he saw Topaz climbing down a rough slope he brought Nero to a halt , an overwhelming surge of life running through him as if he were being born anew .
10 He could be angry when he saw injustice and evil .
11 Time passed and the afternoon light began to fade and Creggan was just beginning to think that he might go back to the carrion he had found before the incoming tide took it , when he saw movement from shadows far below , and the opening of great wings .
12 After midnight on 11 September , William Moodie was reading in bed in Dunsyre House when he saw smoke coming through the floorboards .
13 He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions .
14 And when he saw producer Joe Pasternak , the renowned MGM star-maker , approaching him in the corridor one day , Nicholson spoke up : ‘ Hiya , Joe .
15 Patrick pretended to hide when he saw Rain was after him .
16 He wore a black uniform with a black cap and had a very black face due to the coal dust which rose in clouds when he shovelled coal into the engine .
17 The 19 year old lefthander created one of the biggest match upsets in 92 years of Davis Cup when he surprised world No. 1 Stefan Edberg , , in the opening singles of the first-ever World Group series played in Canada .
18 Judge Gabriel Hutton cited the families ' grief and the ‘ general public outrage ’ when he passed sentence .
19 He had also noticed that there was a slight discomfort when he passed urine .
20 Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry .
21 When he returned Mum asked what they had said .
22 So , too , where furniture dealers transferred furniture on hire-purchase to X with an express proviso that the hiring was to terminate without any notice if the goods were taken in execution for debt , they could sue the sheriff for conversion when he levied execution on them .
23 The judge ruled that Ian , 36 , was in breach of his duties as a director of BIM when he signed stock transfer forms without checking the board had approved .
24 Later he was with Becky when he smelled smoke and burning .
25 He says that when he twists ice out of its plastic container , the ice being extremely cold and dry , he sees a flash of blue-white light as the cubes shatter into pieces .
26 A person buying or leasing land had no previous right to be there at all , let alone to trade there , and when he takes possession of that land subject to a negative restrictive covenant he gives up no right or freedom which he previously had .
27 He has bold plans for the way things will be run when he takes charge .
28 Where the last counter-offer came from the seller , the buyer will accept that offer , and create the contract , when he takes delivery of the goods from the seller , or ( if earlier ) when he pays for them .
29 When he takes office , I 'll show these Indians their rights . ’
30 The Purchaser wants to know that when he takes control of the Business at Completion , it accords with what he had previously been told .
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