Example sentences of "when he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Other existences rub off on him , as can be shown at the grammatical level when he overhears a student and an army officer discussing the money-lender .
2 And when he muttered , ‘ My God !
3 Such an oasis Sweeney had discovered , when he penetrated beyond the ‘ material , literal-minded and visionless ’ .
4 When he envisages GMTV 's audience , he thinks of his mother 's neighbours in Kilsyth .
5 ‘ This imposter played upon the credulity of the public , awe-struck with his powers , when he perambulated the town with chain and field book . ’
6 Ormondroyd should have beaten him when he scooped the ball over the bar from six yards , then the goalkeeper ran to the edge of the penalty area to clear off the Leicester forward 's toes .
7 QUIZ king Tim Brownsett came top of the boffs once again when he scooped the Brain of North Staffordshire title for the second time .
8 Driven beyond sense , she made no protest when he scooped her easily into his arms and strode deeper into the forest .
9 When he goes on to justify his high estimate of the poem , Bunting specifies :
10 When he goes back home to his tiny home village of Plains , Georgia , he teaches Sunday school .
11 He do n't clear mine even though I 'm finished , but when he goes past I ask if I can have a lend of his dishcloth to wipe my fingers .
12 This is the line-up of worriers that Mr Helmut Kohl will try to soothe when he goes to Brussels this Friday .
13 He thinks that when he goes on to test the device in human patients , it should prove successful over long periods .
14 When he goes , the Ewes may want to redress the balance .
15 ‘ Jed 'll run you down when he goes back , ’ the boss ordered .
16 I do n't bother to answer him back when he goes on like that .
17 I always try and go with him when he goes to medical conferences — now we hardly ever take work away from home if it means we ca n't both go . ’
18 The patient may feel embarrassed at first when he goes to places he does not know , but he will be made welcome if the restaurateur knows what to expect .
19 When he goes out in the evening he is invariably with his mates whose influence may encourage him to take risks .
20 When he goes inside , he sees the local grocer with a rather oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands , and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics , mostly bad , and in very small print .
21 Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end .
22 BULGARIAN Nikolai Todorov will put 5,000 on the gate when he goes on trial tonight for Middlesbrough , writes John Wardle .
23 The Wales Under- 19 cap seems certain to receive a minimum three-month ban when he goes before the Welsh Rugby Union next month .
24 The 29-year-old British number one will have butterflies in his stomach when he goes on court but says : ‘ You never play well unless you are a bit nervous but generally I 've reacted well to the Davis Cup and I enjoy it .
25 The story concerns the misdemeanours of a husband when he goes dancing with another woman when he is supposed to be at a boxing match .
26 Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be .
27 When he goes abroad , he always buys a return ticket to the airport a ) because he thinks this will save three milliseconds in a fortnight 's time ; b ) because he knows he 's coming back ; and c ) in case fares go up in the interval .
28 When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’
29 ‘ I 'll be glad when he goes .
30 The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority .
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