Example sentences of "when he [vb past] i [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
2 | So , when he treated me like this , I laughed aloud . |
3 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
4 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
5 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
6 | One of the speakers that evening was Gordon Gissing , so I had no hesitation when he told me about his visit to a picturesque narrow ( metre ) gauge system in East Germany , and offered to give us a talk on it . |
7 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
8 | Can be proved by describing the duty being performed , e.g. ‘ I said to John Brown ‘ You are being arrested for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ and was just about to hold his arm and caution him when he struck me in the face with his left fist etc . ’ |
9 | When he poked , when he poked me in me arm and said |
10 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
11 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
12 | When he took me to a football match we saw Paul Gascoigne and I was allowed to go on the pitch . |
13 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
14 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
15 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
16 | When he fetched me from hospital after my baby died , we drove home in the dark . |
17 | ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’ |
18 | Most of the unexpected visitors were passing girl-friends of Roger 's , so I was surprised when he informed me of the pending arrival of a very special girl-friend . |
19 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
20 | When he introduced me to her , just before the wedding , he sort of … well , he did n't come out and say it , but he got the message over that he did n't want her to know I was gay . |
21 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
22 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |