Example sentences of "[conj] when he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is , and always has been , a true sportsman , smiling , chivalrous , gentle ( except when he has a bat in his hands ) , and possessed of the genuine amateur 's clean outlook . |
| 2 | Burn said that when he praised the article in The Saturday Review and asked Donaldson who was briefing Palmerston , Donaldson abruptly left . |
| 3 | In the Northern Notebook item last week about an Order of St. John honour for Dr. Iestyn Williams it was reported , in good faith from information supplied by Dr. Williams , that when he received the award he would be ‘ accompanied by his wife , Celia . ’ |
| 4 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 5 | Mr McNally : ‘ Are you aware that when he authorised the extension that he told Mr Anderson , and indeed told me at 10.30am yesterday , that there was not sufficient evidence at that stage to charge Mr Anderson following the four interviews on May 24 ? ’ |
| 6 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 9 | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea 's Mike Hazard , who said of his adversary : ‘ He could cope in Poland , not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well , but temperament — you saw that when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . ’ |
| 10 | It was fitting , therefore , that when he became a reader in 1968 it was in modern French history . |
| 11 | It is furthermore clear that when he expressed a favourable judgement on the Romanization of Spain and Gaul he was not copying what his most recent editor , F. Lasserre , has imagined to be a panegyric of Augustus . |
| 12 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 13 | The late unlamented Field Marshal Goering once said that when he heard the word " Culture " , he reached for his gun ; I feel rather the same about the phrase " continuous sedimentation " . |
| 14 | He is one of those players that when he gets the ball can turn it on and do something magic . |
| 15 | The results were equivocal , but to his surprise he found that when he grafted the tissue to the anterior margin of the limb there was a dramatic change in the development of the limb — a whole new set of digits developed : he had discovered the polarizing region . |
| 16 | I knew that when he finished the bottle , my life would end . |
| 17 | A woman he loved so much that when he wrote a legal textbook , he dedicated it to her . |
| 18 | Better telephone so that she can be sure that when he asks the dreaded question that they are . |
| 19 | They were a day out of Pesth on the way to Kinsai and Rostov was concerned that when he met the Kha-Khan he would be able to speak enough Yek to conduct a simple conversation . |
| 20 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 21 | Martin Sauer records that when he visited the region in 1790 the Eskimos congregated in the present locality of Nome hoping to obtain supplies of precisely these commodities . |
| 22 | So far removed from normal sense that when he rang the bell at Nutty 's house and her father came down in his dressing-gown thinking it must be the police , he did not understand the excitement . |
| 23 | At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw . |
| 24 | ‘ He probably hoped that when he inherited the Baskerville lands , she would love him again . |
| 25 | However , section 138 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 protects the purchaser from this provided that when he bought the goods he was bona fide and unaware of any writ of execution relating to the defendant . |
| 26 | This reminded me strongly of Wittgenstein 's story of ‘ the diviner who tells us that when he holds the rod he feels that the water is five feet under the ground ’ , and who , when we express our doubts , says , ‘ You can estimate a length when you see it . |
| 27 | Lamarr is a natural performer , half his stand-up routine depends on his improvised observations and sharp retorts ; he says what he likes , when he likes — which means that when he interviews a stroppy guest he 'll win . |
| 28 | These minor changes in style are all designed to make the unchurched newcomer feel that when he visits the church he is not visiting another planet . |
| 29 | He he he 's got erm a pump for the erm , hosepipe , so that when he hoses the front or the car he 's really got a spurt , yes , yes , he actually put 's the hose in one side and goes sh shoots it out again . |
| 30 | Paul in particular found that when he preached the forgiveness and gift of the Spirit which Christ made possible he ran up against a deeply entrenched problem . |