Example sentences of "[verb] when he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 3 | Michael Heseltine , Environment secretary and former Prime Ministerial candidatem , was certain which he prefered when he met his Spitting Image Alter Ego . |
| 4 | Yet , in Brooklyn , Beecher acted somewhat differently as Dickens found when he paid his last visit to America in 1868 . |
| 5 | Derek Cantwell was attacked when he opened his front door late at night . |
| 6 | ‘ Artful ’ because he was very clever at getting what he wanted ; and ‘ Dodger ’ because he was very good at not getting caught when he did something wrong . |
| 7 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 8 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 9 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 10 | How would Nigel react when he saw their small semi-detached , in a row of identical houses ? |
| 11 | The Tiso retail empire was born when he opened his first climbing shop in Edinburgh in 1962 . |
| 12 | Patrick was just about to ask what she was going to do when he felt something cold touch his scalp — and then it was as if his head had caught fire . |
| 13 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 14 | You used to see my my father 's eyes sparkle when he had his first pint of the day ! |
| 15 | Philip walked back home , only running when he reached his own gate . |
| 16 | Stuart Jobson was on police bail when he shot his former lover June Smith in the car park of a Cheltenham DIY store and then turned the gun on himself . |
| 17 | He would be seeing Caterina again , with her sweet face like a ripe apricot and her almond eyes , and he laughed when he remembered her childish stumblings as she tried to repeat the message to the letter . |
| 18 | ISRAELI pilot Isaac Fuchs knew he was going to die when he spoke his last five words . |
| 19 | Trying to beat the tiredness and the sapping warmth of the room , and his eyes blinked when he wished them clear . |
| 20 | Dubcek sobbed when he told his stunned nation in an emotional radio address that he and fellow leaders of the Prague Spring had had to bow to overwhelming military force . |
| 21 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 22 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 23 | Nor did I complain when he kept me awake , twisting and turning , sighing and moaning . |
| 24 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 25 | He was not averse to giving slaps and pushes when he considered them necessary . |
| 26 | However , Ronnie Tod 's one-man ambush failed when he dropped his tommy-gun magazine as he cocked the gun , and there was a burst of fire from the Germans . |
| 27 | He was still visibly shaken when he entered his own room where , going to the window , he placed both hands on the sill and bowed his head . |
| 28 | I tried not to cringe when he chewed my left ear making a noise like a pig in a trough . |
| 29 | His attempt to win southern gaucho voters by playing up family links there backfired when he got his regional expressions muddled up . |
| 30 | She wanted to cry his name aloud again , but his mouth was against hers , his hair-roughened chest against the naked globes of her breasts , and she loved him , wanted him , needed him and , as he moved her until her back was on her mattress , she had no objection to make when he removed her only covering from her altogether . |