Example sentences of "[det] [noun] when his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 2 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 3 | ONE OF THE few quotable quotes attributed to Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssoen Quisling , uttered with contempt on one of the many occasions when his Norwegian countrymen rejected him , is : ‘ Ibsen knew his people . ’ |
| 4 | Edward Hamer , of Llanidloes , asked how New Zealand company Fortex , which is currently considering two shortlisted sites one near the Powys village , and another in Lockerbie , Scotland expected to create so many jobs when his company could do it with half the number . |
| 5 | ‘ Naylor , ’ she whispered , and knew yet more rapture when his mouth returned to take her lips while his warm and gentle hands caressed in sensual , skin-tingling movement from her throat , over her shoulders , down to her waist , and then , in a wonderful touch , upwards to capture her breasts . |
| 6 | Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock told police he wanted to lead as normal a life as possible but was forced to have more security when his home in Ealing , West London was broken into and bricks were thrown through a window . |
| 7 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 8 | By means of regression it is possible to take such a man back to one of those occasions when his own and his partner 's mutual desires had culminated in a very happy and successful sexual encounter for them both . |
| 9 | He was nowhere near that cliff when his wife was killed . |
| 10 | On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone . |
| 11 | Early on Dowman almost put through his own goal when his flicked header was just wide of the post . |
| 12 | At the special Cabinet , and curiously for a Prime Minister who wishes to get his own way when his colleagues are at best perplexed , he invited everyone else to give their own views before himself intervening . |
| 13 | Mr Moran added to that decline when his Billingsgate-based merchant business , R W Larkin , opened a swanky new fishmonger in London 's King 's Road to which fish is delivered from port agents around Britain , and also from Boulogne . |
| 14 | All the status , the power , the authority , the prosperity , even the fertility of his father will belong to that son when his father dies . |