Sentence examples for when he touched it from inspiring English sources

Her arm, when he touched it, was already getting cold.

Malkemus squirmed when he touched it, as if it had fleas.

The play survived a two-minute video review that confirmed Crosby's stick was under the crossbar when he touched it.

"Up until that point the sound system had been in black and white and when he touched it, it turned to colour," says Berkmann.

"Ryan said he knew he'd touched it but he wasn't sure whether it was on the ground when he touched it.

The police first tried to defuse the bomb with the help of a wheeled robot, Russian television reported, but after several hours, Mr. Trofimov approached the device, which exploded when he touched it.

But when he touches it, the hot metal burns his hand, and he jumps back.

Under the boy's dark hair, Mather thinks, the scalp looks unusually red, and when he touches it the boy flinches.

(At least one place in the rulebook implies that the opposite is true. Rule 7.01: "A runner acquires the right to an unoccupied base when he touches it before he is out").

Rule 7.01 calls the runner safe at a base "when he touches it before he is out" and Rule 7.08 (e) calls him out if "he fails to reach the next base before a fielder tags him or the base [on a force play]." In other words, he has to definitively beat the defense, which sounds an awful lot like "tie goes the fielder".

In place of the usual explosions and giant projections, Jarre makes do with five spotlights on podiums at the back of the stage and smaller effects such as a "laser harp" - vertical green beams of light, each emitting a different note when he touches it.