Example sentences of "[adv] when he [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Leary is in his first season at Saracens , and impressed England coach Dick Best when he scored on his debut for the London Divisional side against the Midlands earlier this month . |
| 2 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 3 | He could not , even when he sat on two cushions , sit easily . |
| 4 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |
| 5 | But that was a long time ago when he lived on his father 's stud farm in Ireland . |
| 6 | Barnbrook Again was unbeaten last season and there was something radically amiss when he fell on his reappearance at Kempton for which there has never been a satisfactory explanation . |
| 7 | Then when he knocked on the door this morning I swallowed a whole lot of saved-up salt and water and pressed my tongue and the timing was perfect , he came in and saw me being sick . |
| 8 | Yet when he trilled on the water-whistle , he seemed to create birds singing in the branches of invisible trees overhead . |
| 9 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 10 | Frost , one might think , righted the balance a little when he said on British television some years ago that diplomacy was : ‘ The art of letting somebody else have your way . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought of this too when he climbed on the chair and made a noose at the end of the rope , a very neat noose with the rope bound ten times round the loop in even rings . |