Example sentences of "when he saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 2 | They entered the Lawnmarket and Corbett shivered when he saw the gibbet and its rotten , swaying human fruit , black figures against the moonlit , summer night sky . |
| 3 | Jane Davis , prosecuting , had earlier told the court that Orchard , of Farringdon , London , had been walking his dog when he saw the girl in a playground in the King 's Cross area one evening last July . |
| 4 | His marriage was only weeks away and the responsibility he felt for Virginia had grown more onerous when he saw the love in her . |
| 5 | When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people . |
| 6 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 7 | When he saw the ball trickling back towards his stumps , he used his left hand to sweep the ball away . |
| 8 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 9 | He looked round sharply then exhaled deeply when he saw the man 's face peering in at him . |
| 10 | Georgiades had a man on that route , too , but there was only one of him and when he saw the man coming he did not risk leaving his post to run and tell them but watched the man until he was safely inside the shop . |
| 11 | You did n't spend half enough when you got the chance , ’ he said when he saw the bill . |
| 12 | George Male was walking to Upton Park tube station when he saw the bill : ‘ Herbert Chapman Dead . ’ |
| 13 | Nehru wept when he saw the clause accepting safeguards . |
| 14 | When he saw the invitation , Khrushchev tells us he could not believe his eyes . |
| 15 | When he saw the state the girl was in he sat her in an armchair and sent his adjutant to get her something to drink . |
| 16 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 17 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 18 | Gregson smiled when he saw the look on Finn 's face . |
| 19 | Finn muttered , reaching for his cigarettes but deciding not to light one when he saw the look of disapproval on the pathologist 's face . |
| 20 | Eubank , the WBO super middleweight champion , was stunned when he saw the message yesterday . |
| 21 | Van Cheele 's old dog , when he saw the boy , had run away in fear and would not come back into the house . |
| 22 | Troy stood completely still when he saw the mother and baby . |
| 23 | Dr Edward Kandiyali thought Stanley Kitchen , who had tried to commit suicide , was lying on the shard when he saw the X-ray photo at Hull Royal Infirmary . |
| 24 | Gabriel forgot his own sadness when he saw the bitterness and deep despair on the farmer 's face . |
| 25 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett waited at the crossroads and frowned when he saw the blood on Sharpe 's arm . |
| 26 | But when he saw the strength of the gale he was seized with fear ; and beginning to sink , he cried , ‘ Save me , Lord . ’ |
| 27 | One leading designer said he liked it when he saw the front , until he realised the ‘ front ’ was the back . |
| 28 | His eyes lit up when he saw the fire , for his hands were blue with cold . |
| 29 | And Senator Eagleton , who had successfully brought in a reclassification amendment so that amphetamine would be more tightly controlled , stated , when he saw the amendment subsequently overturned : ‘ when the chips are down , the power of the drug companies was simply more compelling than any appeal to the public welfare ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 30 | Luther looked deep into the boy 's eyes and smiled wickedly when he saw the truth lurking there . |