Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feared as much when I saw him this morning . " |
| 2 | Just for a moment Michele looked disconcerted , then said easily , ‘ Signor Candiano must have mentioned it when I saw him this afternoon . ’ |
| 3 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 4 | ‘ I was encouraged by the way the idea was received by Sepp Blatter , Fifa 's general secretary , when I met him last month , ’ Kelly said yesterday , ‘ and I 've also been encouraged by his comments since then . ’ |
| 5 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 6 | ‘ When I took him this note , he cried , ‘ All my chemicals are pure , and you can tell your master so ! ’ , and he threw the note back at me . ’ |
| 7 | He was a bit suspicious I must admit when I bought him those Janet Reger nighties but I knew he 'd never get the chance to wear them . |
| 8 | I took a Polaroid photograph and sent it to Colin Willock , our producer — but when I phoned him later , he said , ‘ How long did it take you to set that one up ? ’ ’ |
| 9 | Well I should imagine my would be insulted now when I gave him all those things ! |
| 10 | Nick looked surprised when she told him this . |
| 11 | What had she felt when she saw him dead ? |
| 12 | When she met him one day in the forest , Narcissus said to her : ‘ I suppose you are yet another of these women who find me so very attractive . ’ |
| 13 | When she met him that evening and explained her predicament , he was happy to fall in with her plans . |
| 14 | Incidentally , the hero of the end of the week , when the going was really hard , namely our Church Officer 's young grandson , Steven Massey , said to Frances Robertson when she offered him this form of sustenance ‘ Well , I do n't know about the Turkish , but you 're certainly a delight . ’ |
| 15 | And then , that over , back to London to learn that Max — just when she needed him most — had transferred his affections elsewhere . |
| 16 | When we met him last he was a mere lad down in Somerset , gazing in wonderment at troops of militia , itinerant theatre companies and a larger-than-life basking shark . |
| 17 | Did you see what he did when we passed him first ? |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 19 | Mind you , this fellow jibbed a bit when they offered him two hundred to knock off a bloke who would n't play along with them , but not for long . |
| 20 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 21 | They liked him well enough , however , when they knew him better . |
| 22 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 23 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 24 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |