Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] he about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 2 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 3 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 4 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 5 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 6 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 7 | " I gave him the idea , " Timothy said , " when I told him about my dad . |
| 8 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 9 | When I told him about Marlborough , he cheered up a little . |
| 10 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 11 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 12 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 13 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 14 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 15 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 16 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 17 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 18 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 19 | He seemed distracted when she asked him about Island Trading 's reliability . |
| 20 | She knows that wanting to look good , or sexy , does n't mean she 's ‘ asking for it ’ , but that belief was shaken by a recent incident , and by the overprotective reaction of her brother to her when she told him about it . |
| 21 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |
| 22 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 23 | He would n't like being made a fool of , even it was largely his own fault for refusing to believe her when she told him about Dana . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display . |
| 25 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |