Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard shots , including the rapid fire of automatics , but when he rushed down to the river-bank the kidnappers had already vanished with their victims . |
| 2 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 3 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 4 | ‘ This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table . |
| 5 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 6 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 7 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
| 8 | The painting in four contrary modes was there to greet Gentle when he got back to the studio . |
| 9 | Charles looked a mess when he got back to the car , but Frances made no comment . |
| 10 | Garvey was so drunk when he got back to the pageant that he knocked over the ladder twice before opening the trapdoor . |
| 11 | When he got back to the car Ivy took it away from him and opened the other end . |
| 12 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 13 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 14 | ‘ There 's a gentleman waiting to see you , ’ says the porter , when he gets back to the hotel . |
| 15 | But when he strode on to the green , he came over , glanced fleetingly at the man , said not a word , turned on his heel and continued with his game . |
| 16 | We know what the Conservative party thought of Michael Heseltine this week , they cheered him to the echo when he strode on to the platform at Blackpool . |
| 17 | Kerr gave Vale the lead when he latched on to a perfectly weighted Slaven pass to shoot home deftly after 14 minutes and eight minutes before the interval Slaven strolled into the penalty area before finishing in style . |
| 18 | Ben Sira praised the fathers of old and described the High Priest Simon son of Jochanan in his majestic appearance when he went up to the altar ( 50.11 ) . |
| 19 | I was about five when Dad started taking me with him when he went off to the allotment and I remember how , on a Wednesday evening , we went to Johnny Lampard 's yard in Exeter Street . |
| 20 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 21 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 22 | Tessa had subdued the two boys , Bob discovered with relief and admiration when he went out to the living-room . |
| 23 | But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock . |
| 24 | When he went back to the track , Johnson was half the size he was in Seoul . |
| 25 | It was dark when he cycled to his piano lesson , and it was dark when he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 26 | What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his . |
| 27 | That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her . |
| 28 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 29 | His face was paper-white when he came back to the table . |
| 30 | He felt rather shy and silly , when he came back to the table with Lalage , skipping along and grabbing for his hand as she went . |