Example sentences of "when he [verb] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livingston was just starting to challenge Linford Christie as Britain 's number one sprinter when he received a knock on the door at the Olympic village . |
| 2 | It all came right for David when he legered a sardine on size 8 barbless trebles to a 20 lb wire trace and 12 lb line . |
| 3 | When he was on the field , chairs were placed at regular intervals along each touchline so that when he made a break on the wing , he had plenty of opportunity to rest before continuing his blistering run . |
| 4 | Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov gave warnings of impending economic collapse , including a prediction of a sharply reduced grain harvest , when he addressed a conference on July 2 attended by representatives from all 15 union republican governments and by President Gorbachev . |
| 5 | Charlie was sticking a fork into his third of a pork pie when he heard a knock on the door . |
| 6 | He had barely registered this fact when he felt a tap on his shoulder . |
| 7 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 8 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 9 | Kirton regained fame when he gained a place on the All Black panel , after John Hart had virtually lost be default , for one year , but was removed the following year when Hart made a more orderly bid to become an All Black selector . |
| 10 | Saddam , a polished television performer , made considerable use of the medium for propaganda purposes , as when he conducted a conversation on camera with a British child caught up in the war who now found himself a ‘ guest ’ of the Iraqi regime . |
| 11 | When he proposed a shilling on prescriptions , one shilling and that 's At that time , Ni Bevan started himself started to deteriorate . |