Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there was always trouble when someone presented him with a bill . |
| 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 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 5 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 6 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 7 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 8 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ One of them started crying yesterday , when I hit him with my stick . |
| 12 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 13 | ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf . |
| 14 | Against her creamy paleness his hand was a thin brown intruder , and he knew there were times when she despised him for his swarthy colouring . |
| 15 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't ! ’ groaned Tim when she teased him with the label . |
| 17 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 18 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
| 19 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 20 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 21 | Jack Charlton gave Stewart the chance to star alongside Gazza and Peter Beardsley when he signed him for Newcastle from QPR . |
| 22 | Allison turned Book into a League star at the age of 30 when he took him from non-League Bath City to Plymouth Argyle . |