Example sentences of "when his [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 2 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 3 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 4 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 5 | But when his boss chases him for , you know information or whatever you know . |
| 6 | The knight must be ready to fight hard when his prince required it of him ; he must never desert ; nor must he refuse to fight for the common good ; and , above all , he must fight fearlessly . |
| 7 | The question , who tells us ? , recalls the most important of Dostoevsky 's many changes in the course of writing Crime and Punishment , his switch from first-person narration — the murderer 's story — to what is formally third-person but proves so supple , so volatile , that the distinction between the inside and outside of Raskolnikov 's head disappears when his creator wants it to . |
| 8 | A mantra is given to a trainee meditator when his teacher initiates him into TM during an eastern ritual . |
| 9 | He would sit for hours with his blindfold down , taking no part in the general conversations , or at best looking at Brian and me , shaking his head when his compatriots said something with which he disagreed . |
| 10 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 11 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 12 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 13 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 14 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |
| 15 | The delicate poetry of the atmosphere William seeks to establish is disrupted not only by that noisily symbolic iguana but by such clumping speeches as Shannon 's explanation that his problems began when his mother punished him for masturbating . |
| 16 | But I 've just reached the door when his escorts do it for me in the corridor . |