Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 2 | Spectacular as it looked , however , Lukic — whose terrible error in the first game when he punched into his own goal allowed Rangers back in the tie — must once more shoulder the blame . |
| 3 | OPERA maestro Luciano Pavarotti met a frosty reception when he returned to his old theatre after a five-year absence last night . |
| 4 | He was so taken aback by the poverty of the Tanzanian secondary school that he determined to do something about it when he returned to his own school , St Aloysius College in Glasgow . |
| 5 | When he looked at her like that she was n't at all sure that this was in any way a ‘ soft ’ assignment . |
| 6 | She 'd as soon trust a rattlesnake when he looked at her that way ! |
| 7 | When he looked at her that way he had the most uncanny knack of making her believe he could see right into her soul , and it was a deeply uncomfortable sensation . |
| 8 | Strange , even when he looked at his eldest son , whom he knew to resemble her , he could not remember Mary 's face . |
| 9 | Did you know one of my very oldest friends ( family knew mine before I was born ) is a W cousin but he was said to get no reply when he wrote to them some years ago . |
| 10 | The much loved and still sorely missed David Watson caught this straight from the Holy Spirit when he wrote in his last news letter : |
| 11 | He used to wear a Halloween mask to hide his birthmark when he played with his wee friends . |
| 12 | Also I know that my coach at North Harbour , Peter Thorburn , was very impressed with Ian when he played for us last summer . |
| 13 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 14 | Wheeler may have been ‘ given a charge ’ as the phrase goes , by the Bishop to keep an eye on Paul when he went to his new parish at Markham cum Cumbermound . ’ |
| 15 | It made a brave picture , for he was a fine figure in the saddle , tall and erect and well-made , and looked younger and more athletic than when he went on his own two feet . |
| 16 | When he thought of their forthcoming encounter , he felt the guilty excitement of a schoolboy sneaking into the cinema to see an ‘ X ’ Certificate movie . |
| 17 | Some passages in Saturday 's Son verge on the gross , as when he speaks of his own denunciation of Soviet Communism : ‘ Mother-fornicating Russians . |
| 18 | When he reached for her free hand , clasping it in his own , it was as if she 'd touched a metal surface after walking on a nylon carpet — the shock of contact almost painful in its suddenness . |
| 19 | The Order , when he came across its several agents down by the waterside , was civil for no doubt the same reasons . |
| 20 | What do you think will be going through his mind when he hears of her latest setback . |
| 21 | … when he chuses for his skilful Tongue |
| 22 | When he heard about my half-day holiday , he threw down his hammer angrily . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman is merely trying to raise obscure scares about our proposals when he knows from his own visit to the association that the policy is extremely popular with all the principals and that his statement — that the colleges would be given back to his friends in Labour councils — was greeted with widespread dismay there . |
| 24 | When he moved to his present school , he abandoned individualised learning and lessons fell very much into the mode of ‘ exposition by the teacher , pupils do the exercise ’ . |
| 25 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | I never landed a single blow on those perfect shoulders , that sun-tanned thorax , that laughing , mocking , taunting face ; but I was only too happy when he slipped through my feeble defences and gently pummelled me all over with his bare hands , until my all-too-vulnerable defence degenerated into a giggling slapping match . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've — er — seen quite a bit of him since I met him when he called for you that time , ’ Leith managed , the ever-present ‘ if you value your job ’ threat there in her head again . |
| 28 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 29 | Both had remonstrated with the King when he withdrew to his private chambers in the castle to dress for the journey . |
| 30 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |