Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’
2 When I tell you the reason I 'm going you 'll wish you 'd let me go .
3 ‘ That will get stolen , ’ the minister of health exclaims when I show him the picture of the pressure cooker that is meant to be used as a steriliser in the dispensaries .
4 When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again .
5 They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders .
6 But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them .
7 That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news .
8 Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet
9 ‘ Thank you , William , ’ Marie says to me when I give her the tea , and I say ‘ Is there anything else , your Highness ? ’ like we 're king and queen or summat .
10 Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter .
11 We have people sales people that are always discounting but er well when I say we the world has .
12 But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’
13 If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick .
14 The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved .
15 When you put it the way you put it , I suppose I should have guessed that you had guessed .
16 Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of .
17 " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for .
18 I 'm just one of the Star Councillors , but I was n't in the Star Room when you showed them the animal .
19 Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ?
20 When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) .
21 When she raised them the rest of the way she held them not to her streaming eyes , but to her ears , listening intently for the sound of the sea .
22 Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street .
23 She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass .
24 When she found it the scene was stark .
25 She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out .
26 Rather to her disappointment , Giles replied , and when she gave him the news about Yvette she added cautiously , ‘ Mind you , she still has a little way to go yet , but I think she 'll be OK . ’
27 When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone .
28 She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man .
29 She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake .
30 If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report .
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