Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |
| 32 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 33 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 34 | When she tapped him on the arm he turned swiftly , his eyes suddenly narrowed at the sight of her . |
| 35 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 36 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 37 | When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end . |
| 38 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
| 39 | But he says he was defending himself when she threatened him with a knife . |
| 40 | A masked man who broke into a woman 's house at Newbiggin , Northumberland , fled empty handed when she threatened him with a walking stick . |
| 41 | Bronson fell in love with Kim when she comforted him after the death of his actress wife Jill Ireland from cancer two years ago . |
| 42 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 43 | When she tackled him in the wood , he produced the gun to frighten her off but she wrested it from him and shot him . |
| 44 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 45 | He altered that to , ‘ Can you put the light out , dear ? ’ when she bashed him with the book and asked him to repeat what he had said . |
| 46 | What was it his girl friend , Sandy Riverton , had said when she called him in the middle of the night ? |
| 47 | Despite that , Dane 's eyes glinted appreciatively when she joined him in the hotel foyer , and to her annoyance she felt a pleasant little warm glow deep inside . |
| 48 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 49 | ‘ He 's got party tricks like shaking hands , and when we walk him to the shops on a lead he loves being cuddled by children and old people . |
| 50 | ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display . |
| 51 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
| 52 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 53 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 54 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 55 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 56 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 57 | ‘ They , at least , confined themselves to giggling like village idiots when they watched him from the tower . |
| 58 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |
| 59 | Charlie , is on his last legs , has been for years and , might as well have him put down , as that Nick keep saying , I think I 'll have to have him put down he , when he takes him for a walk he collapses . |
| 60 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |