Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
2 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
3 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
4 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
5 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
6 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
7 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |
8 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
9 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
10 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
11 | ‘ Do n't ! ’ groaned Tim when she teased him with the label . |
12 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
13 | it 's like sort of a guy comes into lectures and , and , and he can be , particularly when talking about things like racism and disability , be quite liberal as it were , you know , and that kind of when you get him down the pub all on his own er a quite different repertoire comes out so er |
14 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
15 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |