Example sentences of "[noun sg] when he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And a fellow officer was given a bloody nose when he refused to get out of bed and watch the results coming in on TV , it was alleged . |
| 32 | how can a man run a town when he got to go er , to work for a fucking boss |
| 33 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 34 | A PLUMBER tapped into a hoard of cash when he went to repair a leak . |
| 35 | Mr Ross had already built a substantial business when he began to approach banks for additional funding . |
| 36 | He might also press back against the plinth when he tried to move his seat or legs . |
| 37 | Antenor de Santa Cruz , commander of the Amazon , spoke on behalf of the military when he pledged to fight any defence of the ‘ environment and minorities ’ and to ‘ occupy the [ Yanomami ] area , rather than giving it up . ’ |
| 38 | The guard has to knock my elbow when he comes to inspect my ticket . |
| 39 | At their wedding , all those years ago , his friends , all of them even then in suits and ties , had nudged each other when he rose to answer his best man . |
| 40 | A man only starts to worry about the virginity of his bride or the virtue of his wife when he wants to breed an heir . |
| 41 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to have available ( a ) information on the United Kingdom gross domestic product per head in 1991 and ( b ) comparable information for the other member states of the European Community . |
| 42 | MCLAREN 's problems appeared to intensify as the race approached , with the Austrian swapping cars 30 minutes before the start and then being forced to start from the pit-lane when he failed to make the parade lap . |
| 43 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 44 | Graham looked round sharply and was about to shake his head when he paused to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 45 | He was conducting an experiment with the gales that blow through that station when he paused to listen to three buskers playing Scottish reels . |
| 46 | In addition , there was the matter of John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester , who was flagrantly obstructed within the police service when he attempted to inquire into abuses by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 47 | Theridamas offers us a useful way of looking at Tamburlaine 's character when he comes to fight him in Act one . |
| 48 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
| 49 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 50 | Only after weeks had passed with him ablaze like this did the hag stir on one occasion when he came to call and curse him — ; or he felt she did — with her eyes open and one hand raised and pointing . |
| 51 | As happened on almost every occasion when he tried to preach the gospel of Hitlerian Fascism , a man in the crowd suggested that if Joyce thought Nazi Germany such a wonderful place , he ought to go there instead of trying to import its political system into England . |
| 52 | Major Vine , a small , strutting , dark-eyed , bad-tempered stoat of a man , always agreed with the Colonel when he managed to hear what the Colonel had actually said . |
| 53 | When his younger son comes of an age when he wants to get married , any girl he brings home is going to take one look at the life his mother has to put up with and she 'll be off . ’ |
| 54 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 55 | Martin Colling , 24 , began with racist remarks to an Asian shopkeeper and ended by attacking a police officer with a coal shovel when he tried to arrest him , Durham Crown Court heard . |
| 56 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to make an announcement on a national scheme for the conversion of council rents to mortgages . |
| 57 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 58 | A DRIVER sparked a major alert when he refused to stop for police because he thought patrol cars still used bells . |
| 59 | The whole exchange had been conducted in low tones so that they could not be overheard , but the bar was empty ; even the landlord had found business elsewhere and Wycliffe had to rap on the counter when he went to replenish their glasses . |
| 60 | James met with similar intransigence when he attempted to use his dispensing power to break the Anglican monopoly over education . |