Example sentences of "[adj] when he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was wrong when he said it had no effect on him . |
| 2 | So he , Mr Major , is wrong when he says he believes that that dialogue , that process that you began with Gerry Adams has run its course do you |
| 3 | Why should that guy be wrong when he fingers you ? |
| 4 | But they were afraid when he faced them . |
| 5 | It was still light when he picked her up , and his appreciative gaze told her that missing her lunch had not been wasted . |
| 6 | The Chronicle A represents Penda as 50 years old when he began his thirty-year reign , and grave suspicion attaches to both round numbers . |
| 7 | The exotically-named , Birmingham-born Exeter schoolboy Orlando Le Fleming was only 15 years 338 days old when he bowled his seamers with some effect . |
| 8 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |
| 9 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 10 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |
| 11 | Meredith quivered , aware that the warmth of his disarming smile was reaching into her own body , and she was relieved when he released her . |
| 12 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 13 | The knife frightened her , and she was relieved when he threw it down . |
| 14 | She is frightened , and much relieved when he puts her down . |
| 15 | He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 17 | Iro , the only Kiwi of undoubted international calibre , made scoring look easy when he received his chance , but in a splendid move between the forwards , Castleford carved the tourists open again before half-time , 19-year-old Paul Crabtree taking a Beardmore pass to give the home side a 20-8 interval lead . |
| 18 | At High Tea , Dot was glad when he saw her staring and tidied the strange hand out of sight beneath the table . |
| 19 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 20 | It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death . |
| 21 | The electrician turned quite white when he saw them ! |
| 22 | Sam 's need to reach Molly becomes urgent when he learns her life is in danger . |
| 23 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 24 | According to several international team-mates , Alan Brazil , the Ipswich and Scotland striker frequently donated money to sick animals , although he was generally unaware they were sick when he backed them . |
| 25 | The 1901 President of the National Free Church Council was only pointing to the obvious when he told his audience that there was throughout the country and Empire ‘ an irresistible movement towards co-operation , combination , collectivism , solidarity , centralisation … |
| 26 | It was so obvious when he explained it . |
| 27 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 28 | Patsy was horrified when he saw his sister 's hair . |
| 29 | She hated arriving at places unannounced and , although Charles Caldecott had always been at his most ingratiating when he met her , that had been on social occasions . |
| 30 | He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life . |