Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis 's hand was reaching into his coat for his own gun , when he paused and made a rapid assessment of the situation . |
| 2 | She was not very much surprised to see him on his feet and opening the door , but when he swayed and put a hand on the wall to steady himself she was unable to prevent her own hand going out towards him . |
| 3 | Mr Lozano was charged with manslaughter when he shot and killed a black motorcyclist in the rundown neighbourhood of Overtown . |
| 4 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 5 | and he proved it at London 's York Hall when he went and won the Commonwealth Flyweight Title … |
| 6 | Until two and a bit years ago , that is , when he met and married the widow of a middle-bracket philanthropist . |
| 7 | ‘ the facts of the present case appear to establish that the rogue assumed all the rights of an owner when he took or received the watch and ring from the plaintiff . |
| 8 | In 1910 Hilton Anderson 's foreman bricklayer was killed when he fell while demolishing a brick kiln . |
| 9 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Ven ! ’ she sighed , and adored him when he bent and placed a tender kiss on her forehead . |
| 11 | Lord Scarman was a judge in the Court of Appeal when he gave and published the Hamlyn lectures in 1974 , which were controversial , as was the Dimbleby lecture given by Lord Denning in 1980 . |
| 12 | When he tried and saw the sky covered with rushing clouds , the lawn that had become a hay-field , the cedar 's wheeling branches , the gun levelled , there would come an explosion in his memory like the firing of that shot-gun , a redness in front of his eyes with splintered edges , then black-out . |