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Example sentences of "[pers pn] when he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Had Mariot 's lips moved under his when he kissed her ?
2	He bustled in one day , rubbing his hands , a fashion of his when he had something unpleasant on his mind .
3	She smiled trustingly at him and his heart melted the way it did when his small nieces slipped their hands into his when he took them out .
4	You mean the son who deserted you when he realised you might be a burden on him ?
5	‘ Because somebody was asking Kenny about you when he had his accident . ’
6	What to take with you when he leaves you .
7	‘ And if you explain to Thomas that he 's not to touch things like that , but must come and tell you when he finds one , then he 'll avoid any danger in future . ’
8	The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it .
9	Roman did n't take kindly to any woman 's refusal , and he no doubt thought he was doing her an honour in wanting her when he thought she had belonged to Garry .
10	Even by his own account , he had continued to make love to her when he knew she did n't want him to .
11	The owner would kill her when he saw it !
12	It was also the terrible pleasure it gave her when he touched her .
13	However annoyed he was going to be with her when he discovered she had no intention of spending the day with him , she was certain that if he found Svend before she found Suzie he would notify her accordingly , if only to ensure Suzie 's hasty departure to the UK .
14	Her name was Mrs Tobias and Hugh had met her when he handled her divorce case , successfully , because Mr Tobias had made a determined rush for freedom , scattering alimony lavishly as he went .
15	Have you seen him when he does it ?
16	you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ?
17	‘ If you like , ’ she replied , and knew she had infuriated him when he thrust his hands into his pockets as if to prevent himself from taking hold of her and shaking the daylights out of her .
18	His mother Mary Adams , 68 , said last night : ‘ I believe him when he says he was hit . ’
19	I believe G.P. — I do n't have to believe him when he says it , I can see it 's true — he hardly worries about money at all .
20	She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway .
21	Can be proved by describing the duty being performed , e.g. ‘ I said to John Brown ‘ You are being arrested for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ and was just about to hold his arm and caution him when he struck me in the face with his left fist etc . ’
22	I agreed with that at least , and I was half-prepared to believe him when he said he could keep me out of it .
23	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 .
24	If only he 'd learned the lesson his father had taught him when he taught him , before it all went wrong .
25	Ivan was beside him when he shot his first German .
26	She hefted her portmanteau , and was about to cross to him when he spied her , and shuffled up , a trifle unsteady on his legs .
27	‘ You recognised him when he followed us out of Greenwich . ’
28	I knew he had something more than Liza and me because we 'd seen him when he had his bath and when he lay in bed in his short shirt .
29	‘ I was with him when he had his third mild heart attack . ’
30	He had spoken to no one about his discovery of Merymose 's body , not even to Taheb , who was distracted by the preparations for her reluctant departure , and had not questioned him when he told her that Merymose had not appeared at their meeting place .