When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When offered a morsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously frightened and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch the tidbit.

When the detective left, Andrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to advise the network to get a substitute director for his current project.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When Costaggini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of empty frieze were left over.

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep.

When stacking wine on its side in a bin, care should always be taken to be sure there is no air bubble left next to the cork.

When he left, she knew she would never see him again.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

When Charles left Germany a few weeks later, Albert renewed his depredations in Franconia.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When the left ventricle contracts to force blood into the aorta, the aorta expands.

When so used it would generally be fastened on the right shoulder, and would partially envelop the chest as it passed obliquely round in front and behind to be attached to the shield under the left arm.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

When photographed, Capone hid the scarred left side of his face saying the injuries were war wounds.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

When Eadgils ' mound ( to the left in the photo ) was excavated in 1874, the finds supported Beowulf and the sagas.

When RAF personnel hand salute they display an open hand, positioned such that the finger tips almost, but not quite, touch the hat band.

When the RAF was formed in April 1918, these operations became the domain of the separate service.

When the Gannet was withdrawn, the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) redeployed the radars from the Gannets onto Avro Shackleton MR. 2 airframes, redesignated Shackleton AEW. 2.

When his ship reached Gibraltar, Beurling learned where he was destined: the island of Malta and No. 249 Squadron RAF.

When the Race carries out air reconnaissance in the months before their attack, Goldfarb and his fellow radar specialists are confused by readings indicating aircraft much faster and high-flying than anything known to humans: the RAF men nickname those echoes " pixies ".

When the Second World War broke out, RAF Fighter Command took control over the airfield and a runway of was paved to handle the Supermarine Spitfire.

When Fowler arrives to try and restore order, he begins talking of his days in the RAF, leading Ginger to realize that she and the other chickens can build a plane made from Fowler's pictures and personal recollections.

When Number 1 School of Technical Training moved to RAF Cosford in 1993, they took over guardianship of the Queen's Colour, and on 31 October 1997, Her Majesty presented RAF Halton with its second colour.

When the RAF left the site became the Headquarters of the Quartermaster General and later Logistics Executive ( Army ).

When mounted in an RAF Mosquito, the " Perfectos " device revealed the position of any German nightfighters fitted with an FuG 25a.

When Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the United States Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall visited the 1st Airborne Division on 16 April 1942, they were treated to a demonstration involving every available aircraft of No. 38 Wing RAF — 12 Whitleys and nine Hawker Hector biplanes towing General Aircraft Hotspur gliders.

When British naval aviation moved away from large fleet aircraft carriers, the Fleet Air Arm role was taken over by the RAF.

When More was 17 his father died, and he applied to join the RAF, but failed the medical test for equilibrium.

When the invasion did come on 10 May 1940, the Germans were not only in possession of more aircraft and weapons than the western Allies ( among them were approximately 400 aircraft from the RAF, including Hawker Hurricane fighters and outclassed Fairey Battle bombers ), but many of them were veterans of the war in Spain and so had brought their comrades up to speed as to how to conduct the air element of the war by " preparing the ground " for the Panzer divisions of the German Army.

When the Second World War started, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the then-neutral United States, asked the major belligerents to confine their air raids to military targets ; however following the German Rotterdam Blitz of 14 May 1940, RAF Bomber Command was authorised to attack German targets east of the Rhine.

When she was 17, to earn money in the summer, Lesley washed dishes at the officers ' mess at nearby RAF Lindholme.

When it became clear that the government was unwilling to entertain a further prisoner exchange given the experience of the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz two years earlier, the RAF tried to exert additional pressure by hijacking the Lufthansa aeroplane Landshut on October 13 with the help of the allied Palestinian group PFLP.

When the Navy's large aircraft carriers were decommissioned, around twenty warheads were transferred to the RAF.

When the RAF medical officer boarded the aircraft he had to give Cruickshank a blood transfusion before he was considered stable enough to be transferred to hospital.

When the RAF was formed, an officer with the rank of Group Captain ( equivalent to Colonel and ( Navy ) Captain ) commanded such a unit, although by the time of World War II, some groups were commanded by Air Commodores ( equivalent to Brigadiers / Brigadier Generals and Commodores ) or even Air Vice-Marshals ( equivalent to Major Generals and Rear Admirals ).

When in June 1980 it was announced that RAF Greenham Common was to become the first site for cruise missiles, there was an outcry from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

When the first F-100D touched down on RAF Lakenheath's runway, the landing symbolized a return for the Statue of Liberty Wing.

When Whittle died in 1996, his ashes were buried in a church at RAF Cranwell.