Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 2 | I was too miserable to giggle , but I wondered if the fiancées had when he postured on his lawn . |
| 3 | Tranmere were restricted to the occasional breakaway which usually ended with an offside decision and Nixon came to their rescue again when he swooped to his right to hold Wright 's shot . |
| 4 | At the very beginning I took it really personally when he yelled at me , ‘ Get me that , ’ but I quickly realised he has a lot on his mind during the show . |
| 5 | I was standing mouth wide open afraid of what was going to happen next , but I practically jumped out of my skin when he yelled at me ‘ to stop gorpin' an' fill the kettle ’ . |
| 6 | Capirossi 's humility off the track gives little indication of the flaming aggression that takes hold when he climbs aboard his Honda RS 125 . |
| 7 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 8 | And when he thrust at her , still yelling , ‘ Get up into that house , there ! ’ and almost pushed her onto her back , the young fellow sprang forward and grabbed her ; then , with one arm around her and the other fist doubled , forefinger pointing out straight at the man , he cried at him , ‘ You lay another hand on her like that , mister , an' that 'll be the last thing you do . ’ |
| 9 | Spectacular as it looked , however , Lukic — whose terrible error in the first game when he punched into his own goal allowed Rangers back in the tie — must once more shoulder the blame . |
| 10 | ‘ Jason Prior was livid when he read about our going out together last night . |
| 11 | The war 's momentum was too great for George to stop it quickly , but when he said in his speech ‘ I glory in the name of Briton ’ he was stressing the fact that , unlike George I and George II , he had been born and brought up in Britain , possessed an overseas empire to be proud of , and saw no need to pay particular attention to the problems of Hanover . |
| 12 | I know it 's there , but I thought that John struck with me a very powerful note , when he said in his conference speech , I should share these things first in private . |
| 13 | When he knew of his wife 's pregnancy Ernest requested that none of their names should go into the ballot until after the baby 's birth . |
| 14 | The accused claimed that he had produced the gun to try to hold Robert at bay and then shot him when he advanced on him with a hunting knife . |
| 15 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 16 | When he returned to his room Coleridge was mortified to discover that ‘ though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision , yet , with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images , all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast … ’ |
| 17 | OPERA maestro Luciano Pavarotti met a frosty reception when he returned to his old theatre after a five-year absence last night . |
| 18 | When he returned to his camp in the evening he found it deserted : while he had been feasting , Tafari 's agents had persuaded his troops to return home . |
| 19 | When he returned to his office some two hours later , it was to hear from Mrs. Mott that Lord Coleworthy had been on the telephone and wanted him to ring back when he came in . |
| 20 | He was so taken aback by the poverty of the Tanzanian secondary school that he determined to do something about it when he returned to his own school , St Aloysius College in Glasgow . |
| 21 | When he returned to it from the telephone box outside , it was unoccupied . |
| 22 | When he returned with her case , she was ready and he led her down the hall , through the emergency exit , past the sleeping night porter in his little room and into the car-park . |
| 23 | When he returned with her to the Judge 's House two hours later , he found Mrs Wood waiting outside it . |
| 24 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 25 | O'Leary is in his first season at Saracens , and impressed England coach Dick Best when he scored on his debut for the London Divisional side against the Midlands earlier this month . |
| 26 | In that narrow sense , Reagan was right when he insisted at his testimony , as on every previous occasion , that ‘ no-one has proven to me that there was a diversion . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Indeed , if Aristotle was a master of the art and handed his philosophy down to us very carefully , should n't he have proven everything in the most perfect form , especially when he insisted upon it himself — unless perhaps he intended to make fun of us ? ’ |
| 28 | The writer to the Hebrews , speaking of Jesus said , ‘ When he had by himself purged our sins . ’ |
| 29 | WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS , sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high . ’ |
| 30 | When he looked beyond her |