Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well when he said how much he 'd got , I thought seventy six and seventy three is hundred and forty six . |
| 2 | On occasions when he knew too little he preferred to keep quiet . |
| 3 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |
| 4 | Yet she had n't the heart to forbid him to smoke when he had so few comforts left . |
| 5 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 6 | When he got home that evening he could smell that Val was in a mood . |
| 7 | When he got home that evening he still could n't get the hat off . |
| 8 | Agathist , a good looking winner of National Hunt races for Gavin Pritchard-Gordon and David Nicholson is prone to leg injuries and makes few race course appearances but is hard to beat when he gets there all in one piece . |
| 9 | What happened to Brian when he left home that day remains a mystery . |
| 10 | He was in a very strange mood when he went away this time . |
| 11 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 12 | Yanto 's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night . |
| 13 | There was never owt to be done with Jake when he took on that wild-eyed look . ’ |
| 14 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 15 | I could n't stop him reforming , but when he came together all the polish was gone off . |
| 16 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 17 | I wo n't go into all the grim details , but suffice it to say that when he laughed too much at one of his own jokes with his mouth full and a Chinese mushroom shot out of his nose … |
| 18 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 19 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 20 | So when he rang up that evening to tell me he was taking a fortnight 's leave towards the end of June and what about a trip north as soon as term ended , I did feel as if the fates themselves had taken a hand . |
| 21 | He also said Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , had made a mistake when he pumped too much money into the economy after the 1987 stock market crash . |
| 22 | However , with the solitary exception of Sophie Haibel 's mention of ‘ extraordinary grimaces with his mouth , ’ which might qualify for a complex motor tic , Simkin then proceeds to deflate his argument by begging the question when he assigns inappropriately several examples of Mozart 's humorous hyperactivity to the category of motor ‘ Tourettisms . ’ |
| 23 | When he jumped down some twenty minutes later , I found he had chewed away a large portion of my cashmere sweater . |
| 24 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 25 | John failed dismally , however , when he set up any business with a partner . |
| 26 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 27 | They duly applauded when he quantified electrochemistry in his famous laws of electrolysis , and when he proved experimentally that electricity from a condenser , a battery or an eel was the same . |
| 28 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |