Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mayor of Whitby , Coun Maurice Hatton , will not be taking the official chain of office when he goes on a pilgrimage to the German town of Kleve on April 30 , because of its high value . |
| 2 | The footwork appears again and again in different enchaînements during their other appearances , notably in the short solo for Mercutio when he dances in a more tragic vein just before he dies . |
| 3 | A TEENAGE computer hacker knocked out a vital cancer treatment database when he keyed into a computer at a world famous centre for medical research , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | Laurence McGeown 's wide runner satisfied selectors last week at the Dublin track when he cruised to a facile seven lengths victory , 30.61 seconds , over the Anglo-Irish International 503 metres distance . |
| 5 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 6 | He was still pondering on the problem when he drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 7 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 8 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 9 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 10 | Ironically , he was on the way to a full recovery when he choked on a curry bone at acting chairman , Mr Pahdra Singh 's , restaurant . |
| 11 | A DOCTOR was fined £750 with £213 costs yesterday after a child visiting his surgery was left with severe internal burns when he drank from a bottle of acid that should have been locked away . |
| 12 | ‘ Looks more like a home prescription to me , ’ the man said gloomily when he returned with a phial of pills . |
| 13 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 14 | When he returned from a holiday in August he had some unwelcome news . |
| 15 | When he commits to a budget he takes a risk . |
| 16 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna being sent off for protesting just a little too vociferously . |
| 17 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna sent off for protesting . |
| 18 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 19 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 20 | When he looked through a hole in the curtain to see the audience , he was horrified to see his wife . |
| 21 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 22 | It started nine years ago when he got into a dispute on a pathway with a Brahmin and his wife . |
| 23 | The Leeds fans loved it , the ref did n't — he had a word with the boy , and had to have another word in the 2nd half when he got into a scuffle . |
| 24 | He became quite frightening when he got in a rage trying to explain his last minute ideas : |
| 25 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 26 | When he gets in a er a punch up he goes a bit fucking do lally . |
| 27 | Mr alright but when he gets in a bad mood . |
| 28 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
| 29 | Max Boyce once unwittingly touched upon this cricket conundrum when he wrote of a factory under the hills that produced outside-halves for Wales . |
| 30 | Arriving at an itinerant workers ’ hostel in LA he discovers the terrible truth about life when he happens upon a pair of magic sunglasses . |