Example sentences of "when he [verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 2 | Major Vine , a small , strutting , dark-eyed , bad-tempered stoat of a man , always agreed with the Colonel when he managed to hear what the Colonel had actually said . |
| 3 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 4 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 5 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 6 | When he does realise what the topic is , he implicates a significant lack of interest in it by changing the topic to that of his " ulterior motive " in coming to Czechoslovakia . |
| 7 | When he has to deliver anything the man opens the door maybe half an inch . |