Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pron] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody , he once remarked , believed him when he said it was an attempt to create a world in which a language agreeable to his own private aesthetic might be made to seem real , and even his childhood seems to have been enlivened by inventing as well as learning remote languages . |
| 2 | I 'll ask him if he was joking when he said there was a wild animal in my woods . |
| 3 | He put it in a nutshell when he said she was the sort of girl who , if there had been a meadow handy , would have been out there in a flash picking cowslips . |
| 4 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |
| 5 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 6 | But when he does he 's the best . |
| 7 | Under the television lights does make a lot of difference , but when he knows it 's a big occasion , he can produce the goods when it matters , and there are n't too many of those . |
| 8 | Joseph , who was watching him closely , saw the muscles of his jaw tighten as he continued looking ahead through the windshield , and when he spoke there was a new undertone of coldness in his voice . |
| 9 | He lost interest when he found there were no pictures . |
| 10 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 11 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |