Example sentences of "when he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a pupil who is visually impaired is writing or drawing , his work position is as important as when he is reading . |
| 2 | She also shows her bias for Bassanio in the music she plays when he is choosing the caskets . |
| 3 | Wormtongue ( a servant of The/1oden Lord of the Mark but in the pay of Saruman ) is pardoned even though he has poisoned the mind of The/1oden , but he receives his punishment when he is sent back to Saruman . |
| 4 | As long-haired ‘ Hap ’ , one of a pair of beatnik lovers , wearing a polo-neck sweater and a raincoat , Dustin 's 45-second moment comes when he is seen breaking up with his girlfriend ( Mariclare Costello ) before she wanders off to be almost grabbed by the preying Wallach . |
| 5 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 6 | A graduate chartered librarian with a full teaching qualification and working in schools is a teacher when he is engaged with a class , and mostly a librarian when he is devising an alphabetical subject index , and so on . |
| 7 | Two of the main characters are Julian , who is writing a thesis on ‘ neopostdeconstructionism ’ , and Decibel , a voice he hears inside his head when he is recovering in hospital from an accident . |
| 8 | When he is done , I ask if he will play ‘ Carrickfergus ’ . |
| 9 | When he is done , Megan requests ‘ The Knock ’ , on behalf of Siobhan 's recent fiasco . |
| 10 | The Lou Reed that emerges from this pathetic book is a self-satisfied boor when he is intoxicated , a self-righteous booby when sober . |
| 11 | ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’ |
| 12 | In Israel , they have built an exact replica of the Rebbe 's house so he will feel at home when he is proclaimed as Messiah and brought to the Holy Land . |
| 13 | It could be said that his attitude is as a result of his poverty but in chapter three we meet a young boy called Chuck Little who ‘ did n't know where his next meal was coming from ’ but who was also ‘ a perfect gentleman ’ and when he is contrasted to Bob Ewell 's son Burris we see that they are both in similar circumstances . |
| 14 | He 's a floating penguin that literally toots with joy when he is pushed down under the water . |
| 15 | But when he is called to perform later on that night he curls up in a limp ball and refuses to move . |
| 16 | What is more , they have caught the Labour party without a spokesman able to put its objections clearly when he is called upon to address them . |
| 17 | Holmes will not come back when he is called ( he does n't even turn round when you shout ) and he can not be allowed of the lead . |
| 18 | You could ask PH to introspect into the contents of his phenomenological awareness when he is looking at faces for as long as you liked , but there would be no insight that any recognition is occurring . |
| 19 | Tying them by the leg with a string about 4 or 5 feet long fastened to the ground , and , when he is made to stand fair , a great ignorant merciless fellow at a distance agreed upon and at two pence three throws , flings a ‘ scail ’ at him till he is quite dead . |
| 20 | a manager might have to change his leadership style as the circumstances of his job change ( eg. when he is moved to a new job ) . |
| 21 | I hope that , when he is reporting our debate in Oxford , he will tell the House who won the vote . |
| 22 | One of the ponies at my local stable always gets a cough and a runny nose when he is stabled in at nights . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever a man remembers at the last , when he is leaving the body , will be realised by him hereafter ; because that will be what his mind constantly dwelt on during his life . ’ |
| 24 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |
| 25 | Certainly this limpidity is not within Eliot 's reach even when he is trying to be limpid , as in ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ; , and of course the experience of a simple person enduring a commonplace and unavoidable sorrow — is such as Eliot could never manage , early or late . |
| 26 | No-one knows any longer when Morrissey is being sarcastic and when he is trying to awaken us to something . |
| 27 | The radio sketches that Galton and Simpson created for Tony Hancock in the mid-1950s are a back-street version of the same rueful joke : the hero , discomforted by every encounter , gets it wrong when he is trying hardest to get it right . |
| 28 | His voice , which sounds like a male version of Dietrich 's , trips over itself when he is trying to communicate one of his many enthusiasms . |
| 29 | the employer is not only provided with maximum assurance that his competitors will make the same settlement that he does ; he is also assured that his competitors will be shut down … when he is shut down , so that he need not reckon on a permanent reduction in market share when calculating the costs of a strike . |
| 30 | When he is beaten then he will be a zek , and that is the way of them all , all eight hundred in the compound . |