Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an oasis Sweeney had discovered , when he penetrated beyond the ‘ material , literal-minded and visionless ’ . |
| 2 | Julian Lewis , from Caerphilly , Mid Glamorgan , was on a trail at Rhydyfelin when he toppled over the edge . |
| 3 | The useful information in this book is shot through with the engaging assertion that the books are biographical and that when he journeyed to some of the scenes of Hornblower 's exploits the author was truly following in the steps of his hero . |
| 4 | I was too miserable to giggle , but I wondered if the fiancées had when he postured on his lawn . |
| 5 | Tranmere were restricted to the occasional breakaway which usually ended with an offside decision and Nixon came to their rescue again when he swooped to his right to hold Wright 's shot . |
| 6 | At the very beginning I took it really personally when he yelled at me , ‘ Get me that , ’ but I quickly realised he has a lot on his mind during the show . |
| 7 | I was standing mouth wide open afraid of what was going to happen next , but I practically jumped out of my skin when he yelled at me ‘ to stop gorpin' an' fill the kettle ’ . |
| 8 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was registered as ‘ plebeian ’ when matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1651 , and as a sizar when he migrated to Catharine Hall , Cambridge , in 1654 . |
| 12 | And when he thrust at her , still yelling , ‘ Get up into that house , there ! ’ and almost pushed her onto her back , the young fellow sprang forward and grabbed her ; then , with one arm around her and the other fist doubled , forefinger pointing out straight at the man , he cried at him , ‘ You lay another hand on her like that , mister , an' that 'll be the last thing you do . ’ |
| 13 | Spectacular as it looked , however , Lukic — whose terrible error in the first game when he punched into his own goal allowed Rangers back in the tie — must once more shoulder the blame . |
| 14 | His career plunged to humiliating depths when he engaged in ‘ boxer v. wrestler ’ bouts and even consented to making a fully fledged comeback in a boxing promotion at Peterborough ( which was not licensed by the BBBC ) at the age of 35 ( Birtley , 1976 , p.133 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was still pondering on the problem when he drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 17 | He was flying about 20 minutes behind the Aero Club 's chief instructor when he radioed to Newcastle Airport air traffic control that he was descending to below 1,000 feet because of thick fog . |
| 18 | But when he woke at quarter past six , his mind was full of ugly images , of Alex trembling , of the gun , and , most of all , of the expression of bewilderment and betrayal on Michael Banks 's face as he clutched at his chest and sank to the ground . |
| 19 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 20 | Of course , he flung her off when he woke in the morning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When he woke from an exhausted sleep Greg had — he felt — one piece of the jigsaw definitively in place : the letter from Walter Machin to Hilda dated 2 June 1939 was a fake . |
| 23 | Kasuya 's fears proved to be well founded , and he dropped a bombshell at the 1989 meeting of the IWC 's Scientific Committee , when he revealed to the Small Cetaceans Subcommittee the staggering increase in the number of Dall 's porpoise killed in the harpoon fishery based on Iwate Prefecture . |
| 24 | ‘ Jason Prior was livid when he read about our going out together last night . |
| 25 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 26 | When he read from Mr Thackeray 's Book of Snobs , choosing the ‘ Great City Snob ’ as his text , imitating the while Sir Thomas 's mannerism of impatiently snapping his fingers and clasping his lapel , followed by his grave walk , hands behind back , no one had had the least doubt as to whom was meant . |
| 27 | Owned by the Armleder family since 1875 , the hotel was where his grandfather had first come when he escaped from Russia . |
| 28 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one ! |