Example sentences of "when they [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 2 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 3 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 4 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 5 | His lack of new-technology experience had been ignored by Pilger and the others when they chose him for his production skills . |
| 6 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 7 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 8 | When they took him to Florida , he was n't so bothered about Mickey Mouse . |
| 9 | JIM LEIGHTON ( above ) , the goalkeeper Manchester United once dropped from an FA Cup final , was yesterday put on Wembley alert by semi-finalists Sheffield United when they signed him on loan from Dundee . |
| 10 | His father was born in Germany , and a teenager when they brought him to Detroit . |
| 11 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 12 | He relapsed into a dangerous silence when they accused him of ‘ breaking family ties ’ by his refusal to stop writing letters to the Strickers ' home . |
| 13 | Mike Widmer , group managing director for Caldaire , said yesterday that a deputation from the firm would ask Mr Freeman to waive the clause when they meet him in London on Thursday . |
| 14 | Always a footballing footballer , even when under pressure in defence , Derek 's quality was there for all to see and the appreciation of the Palace fans was shown when they elected him as our Player of the Year in 1975 . |
| 15 | ‘ They , at least , confined themselves to giggling like village idiots when they watched him from the tower . |
| 16 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |
| 17 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |
| 18 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |