Example sentences of "a [noun sg] when he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our source on the Pinnacle Data Systems story a fortnight ago ( UX No 392 ) was stretching things a bit when he described the five-year-old Columbus , Ohio firm as a $40m outfit : a Dun & Bradstreet report on them projects their sales at $5m . |
| 2 | At the age of 71 , he 's written the definitive book on Brize Norton which was little more than a field when he joined the RAF 53 years ago . |
| 3 | Hence it is fairly clear that Cnut , who received the name Lambert at his baptism , was a Christian when he acquired the English throne , and the same was probably true of most of his major followers . |
| 4 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 5 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 6 | He was , she said ‘ such a hothead when he entered the series . |
| 7 | His prestige stood high , and it made a sensation when he denounced the CPP for corruption and waste . |
| 8 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 9 | It may be asked what it is that disturbs a person when he feels the ‘ prick of conscience ’ . |
| 10 | Then , as she began to think about it , her anger rose , asserting itself to an even greater degree and causing her to almost hiss at him , ‘ Tell me this — what sort of a hypocrite kisses a woman when he dislikes the entire sex ? ’ |
| 11 | Albert his name was , and he greeted her with a kiss when he opened the door to us . |
| 12 | Scots rider Jim Moodie recorded a double when he lifted the 600cc and 400cc classes . |
| 13 | If you break down in the tunnel and you require assistance , the fireman takes from the driver a Wrong Line Order , colour green , and walks to the signal box , putting down three detonators as a guide when he pilots the Break Down on the wrong line to the train . |
| 14 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 15 | The incoming Minister of Internal Affairs , Petr Valuev , had been accounted a liberal when he criticized the state of the empire at the time of the Crimean War , but had apparently become less enthusiastic about change with the passage of time . |
| 16 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 17 | He first came to prominence as a speaker when he joined the British Union of Fascists , founded by Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , after some years at Birkbeck College where he obtained a first-class honours degree in English , and he helped to found a National Socialist party in London . |
| 18 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |
| 19 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 20 | Eliot had written of and against such a milieu when he combined the elements of the savage and the city , from the beating tom-tom of ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ through the rituals of The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes to the cocktail chatter and jungle martyrdom of the play , The Cocktail Party , yet to come . |
| 21 | The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters , ’ I replied . |
| 22 | There was a pause when he ended the First Mystery . |
| 23 | Niven came to grief at the eighth fence on Flight Hill and had his left arm in a sling when he left the course by ambulance . |
| 24 | Generally , a person organises a procession or an assembly when he makes the necessary arrangements for the conduct of the event by initiating it , planning the route or location , or assists in doing so . |
| 25 | GREG NORMAN brought his much publicised slump to an end when he captured the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey . |
| 26 | The sort of fellow who gets an erection when he hears the bank rate 's gone up a tenth of a percent . |