Example sentences of "when he is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When he is done , I ask if he will play ‘ Carrickfergus ’ . |
| 6 | When he is done , Megan requests ‘ The Knock ’ , on behalf of Siobhan 's recent fiasco . |
| 7 | The Lou Reed that emerges from this pathetic book is a self-satisfied boor when he is intoxicated , a self-righteous booby when sober . |
| 8 | ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 's a floating penguin that literally toots with joy when he is pushed down under the water . |
| 12 | But when he is called to perform later on that night he curls up in a limp ball and refuses to move . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | One of the ponies at my local stable always gets a cough and a runny nose when he is stabled in at nights . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When he is beaten then he will be a zek , and that is the way of them all , all eight hundred in the compound . |
| 21 | He is bitterly humiliated when he is beaten in a fist-battle with Thomas Fox , arranged by the captain as the climax to a day of races and contests organised to keep the hands occupied while the ship is becalmed . |
| 22 | How can the Prime Minister claim to be seeking the best deal for Britain when he is determined to get the worst conditions for British workers ? |
| 23 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 24 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 25 | What he gives is his opinion , whereas when he is asked who he will vote for he gives a fact . |
| 26 | When he is asked what he will do after his own group splits , he usually resorts to humour . |
| 27 | The Attorney General can only act when he is asked to . |
| 28 | Brundle looks askance when he is asked if he has ever read the books of technical instruction in race-driving written by Pierro Taruffi and Alain Prost , among others . |
| 29 | The shop he calls has a copy , agrees to keep it over , and the secret comes out when he is asked to give his name — J R Hartley . |
| 30 | What we are reading may invite reaction : Shirley Hughes expects us to react to Dave 's loss of Dogger and to be concerned about the problem of Alfie when he is locked inside the house . |