Example sentences of "when his " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 2 | A boss who was expecting a quiet birthday with his family at home was taken completely by surprise when his highly desirable secretary invited him back to her home for a drink after work . |
| 3 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 4 | One such sad tale was Lt James Ferris when his P-51B went out of control on June 19 . |
| 5 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 6 | Roger Davis fell in love with photography when his gave him a box camera nearly 50 years ago . |
| 7 | It seemed the Prime Minister was in danger of quite literally hitting the campaign trail when his specially chartered aircraft made a decidedly bumpy landing at Gloucestershire airport near Cheltenham . |
| 8 | Mm I think that was when his had auntie died , he 'd seen his mother . |
| 9 | When his steamer quits the town , it is attacked by rebels , but manages to fight clear . |
| 10 | Just when his ship was coming in she might have set fire to it . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir Vivien often played a round before breakfast , ’ said Major Ernest ‘ Tiger ’ Bagshot , 43 , Secretary of Royal Wrigglesworth , ‘ But my suspicions were aroused when his black labrador , Bonzo , appeared at the clubhouse at approximately ten o'clock . |
| 12 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 13 | Firstly , mat modules can come apart , and if the referee fails to notice this the competitor may be injured when his foot slips into the gap . |
| 14 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 15 | Ashton , too , has made vivid use of occupational gesture from time to time as , for example , when his ‘ Swiss Miss ’ milks her cow with the help of the three boys in Façade . |
| 16 | ‘ If I do n't , he has a hypo ( hypoglycaemic attack ) , when his blood sugar dips too low . |
| 17 | The question , who tells us ? , recalls the most important of Dostoevsky 's many changes in the course of writing Crime and Punishment , his switch from first-person narration — the murderer 's story — to what is formally third-person but proves so supple , so volatile , that the distinction between the inside and outside of Raskolnikov 's head disappears when his creator wants it to . |
| 18 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 19 | Opposite them stands Shatov , and when his wife 's and Stavrogin 's baby is delivered by Mrs Virginsky , the man who will believe in God declares |
| 20 | How could Pound continue to proclaim this , when his own writing for decades before had belied it ? |
| 21 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 22 | It was immediately assumed that Robson , who had missed England 's 0-0 draw in Sweden last month because of bruised ribs , would again be absent when his country strove to acquire the further point they need in Poland to ensure qualification for the World Cup finals next summer . |
| 23 | Shah said he wrote to Knighton when his offer to buy out the shareholding of United 's chief executive , Martin Edwards , was first made public , and received a phone call last Friday from Knighton , who asked him if he wanted to participate in the deal . |
| 24 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 25 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | With his loyal advisers Francis Cripps and Frances Morrell by his side , he beavers away with unremitting zeal even when his beloved industrial policy is snatched away and he is banished to the Department of Energy . |
| 28 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
| 29 | He was booked for a wild foul on Carl Bradshaw , so there was an element of justice when his clearance found Rostron and the Owl-in-exile advanced to equalise with a cross-shot that may have been more cross than shot . |
| 30 | This results from the strategy adopted by Mr Papandreou , whose eight years in office ended when his socialist Pasok party was defeated in an inconclusive election last June . |