Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] when he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 2 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 3 | In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan . |
| 4 | His removal , known to have been sanctioned by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , followed a public uproar when he attempted to exonerate state and local officials after explosions in the sewers of the city of Guadalajara on April 22 had left 200 people dead and caused widespread devastation [ see p. 38859 ] . |
| 5 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 6 | James met with similar intransigence when he attempted to use his dispensing power to break the Anglican monopoly over education . |
| 7 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 8 | He was fired for serious misconduct when he continued to put in extra hours despite an overtime ban and after bosses at the NCP pound in central London alleged that time sheets had been altered . |
| 9 | And a fellow officer was given a bloody nose when he refused to get out of bed and watch the results coming in on TV , it was alleged . |
| 10 | Sir Francis Chichester sailed in this little yacht when he tried to equal the Cutty Sark 's voyage times . |
| 11 | Robert Dakers , 44 , had not counted on the Home Office cancelling his parole licence for previous offences when he returned to face three charges of handling stolen goods . |
| 12 | Timothy was about to change what was clearly an unwelcome subject when he happened to look up , his brows meeting sharply . |
| 13 | He had an engaging manner , a valuable asset when he came to write the diary column . |
| 14 | At their wedding , all those years ago , his friends , all of them even then in suits and ties , had nudged each other when he rose to answer his best man . |
| 15 | He was conducting an experiment with the gales that blow through that station when he paused to listen to three buskers playing Scottish reels . |
| 16 | He was usually in a good mood when he started to make something , though he did n't often finish it . |
| 17 | Mr Ross had already built a substantial business when he began to approach banks for additional funding . |
| 18 | A DRIVER sparked a major alert when he refused to stop for police because he thought patrol cars still used bells . |
| 19 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 20 | To ask the Prime Minister when he plans to make his first visit to Liverpool . |
| 21 | It will stand him in good stead when he comes to argue against the MacSharry proposals . |
| 22 | David Hunt , the Minister for Local Government , will be vulnerable to an angry reaction when he tries to answer the expected protest from the Tory grass-roots — and Tory councillors in particular . |
| 23 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 24 | Only after weeks had passed with him ablaze like this did the hag stir on one occasion when he came to call and curse him — ; or he felt she did — with her eyes open and one hand raised and pointing . |
| 25 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 26 | Neil , beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes when he refused to go shoplifting , was last night reunited with his sister Claire , nine , and six-year-old brother Daniel . |
| 27 | He had a client who thought he had missed a fabulous bargain when he refused to buy a paste cross from an impoverished Russian aristocrat . |
| 28 | The 45-year-old , who worked at Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council from 1977 to 1985 and at Durham County Council from 1985 to 1988 , sparked a nationwide search when he failed to return to his High Farm home on August 24 . |
| 29 | ‘ He was in a somewhat distressed state when he came to see me after taking Iris and her students to the Parc de Prafance . ’ |
| 30 | Is the not Secretary of State continuously presenting a distorted view when he tries to convince the House that the Government are spending more on the national health service ? |