Example sentences of "of [noun sg] when he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALEXANDER Dubcek won world fame as a symbol of hope when he headed the illfated ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform that was crushed by Soviet tanks in August 1968 . |
| 2 | However , Moon has a change of heart when he sees the place , and later , after a night spent drinking hallucinatory ayahuasca , parachutes in alone , strips off his clothes , and persuades the Indians to accept him . |
| 3 | JOHN Calton was a highly trained paratrooper who turned to a life of crime when he left the Army . |
| 4 | Charles Trevelyan , founder of the UDC , spoke for a substantial body of opinion when he moved the resolution in a spirit of revolutionary pacifism : ‘ … the rulers must know that if war comes they will fight with a divided nation . |
| 5 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 6 | The King and his courtiers started at the sight of Kabir when he entered the hall . |
| 7 | Farmer Chris Slatter was spraying a crop of flax when he made the grim discovery . |
| 8 | The council has dispatched nearly 105,000 bills amended to take account of the reduction imposed by the Secretary of State when he capped the council 's expenditure . |
| 9 | Tomorrow comes the real test of strength when he faces the giant England pack . |
| 10 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 11 | CUED UP Joe Johnson gives Fred some tips on the finer points of snooker and ( inset ) a beaming Joe and wife Terryll share the moment of triumph when he won the world title in 1986 |
| 12 | Gandhi is faithful to the traditions of Hinduism when he affirms the isomorphism of Truth ( Satya ) and Reality ( Sat ) . |
| 13 | He was working as a trainee film editor with Ulster Television in Belfast and , like most young men , pursuing an active life of sin when he felt the Lord speaking to him . |