Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 2 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 3 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 4 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 5 | The political influence of the other major radical figure , Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , was drastically reduced when Rafsanjani removed him from the post of Interior Minister in his Cabinet reshuffle of August 1989 , following his election as President [ see pp. 36859-60 ] . |
| 6 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 7 | He was sure that , even though he and Ari got along well , she must have been disappointed when Leila chose him for the job . |
| 8 | And when Changez embraced him in the street I thought I heard Anwar 's bones cracking . |
| 9 | King Don Ferdinand was going through Leon , putting the Kingdom in order , when tidings reached him of the good speed which Rodrigo had had against the Moors . |
| 10 | Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale . |
| 11 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 12 | It was after 9 a.m. when Nowak drove him through the gates , past the guards , and into the vast underground car-park . |
| 13 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 14 | Robert Stephenson , when John met him after the week 's delay , was amused at the story of the Triumph of Rhyll . |