Example sentences of "when he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he saw it plain he did not like it . |
| 2 | When he saw it again he ran away and hid , much to the embarrassment of his family , who thought this silly behaviour for a man of his age . |
| 3 | But how can Sartre claim to found a general anthropology when he defines it solely in terms of his own society ? |
| 4 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 5 | When he struck it hard against the trunk of the tree it seemed solid and did not break or splinter . |
| 6 | What frustrated his old fans was that when he went it more or less alone , as on 1982 's masterfully stark and turbulent Music For A New Society , Cale produced what he also regards as his best album , ‘ because all the old pain was right there . ’ |
| 7 | His position was not unlike that of MacDonald two years before : but he was able to exert his influence with most of his former strength when he thought it right to do so . |
| 8 | When he reached it there was a sprinkling of cars but no decrepit old van with a CND symbol on its side . |
| 9 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 10 | He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though . |
| 11 | The side door to the house swung in when he touched it probably only locked at night . |
| 12 | Dr Johnson , in his intermittently droll Dictionary , was for once not attempting to stir mirth when he defined it thus : ‘ The first month after marriage , when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure . ’ |
| 13 | and understanding , when he explained it clearly , |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know this face ? ’ said Isambard , turning Harry about in his hands to display him to them all , and taking him by the chin to jerk up his face to the light when he turned it haughtily aside . |
| 15 | In a desperately tense tittle battle with John Kocinski , which often overflowed with off-track vitriol , Cardus finally lacked the killer instinct when he needed it most . |
| 16 | But , head to head with the world 's No 1 , the strapping Scot had had a four-under- par 66 to his conqueror 's 68 and the satisfaction of having unfurled a draw just when he needed it most . |
| 17 | Mr Frizzell , before the unfortunate episode with Betty , had been prevailed upon to donate four old , though still serviceable , tyres ; and finally the great day arrived when he backed it slowly out of the garage and drove it round to his own home in the vague hope that his mother might like to see it . |
| 18 | It 's in verse eleven , as a result of the anguish of his soul he will see it and be satisfied , he 'll be satisfied with the rescue operation , he 'll be satisfied with what he has accomplished , Isaiah says , and Jesus uses , perhaps , even more extravagant language , there in Luke fifteen , when he says in verse six , in verse mm mm , in verse seven , when he comes home with that sheep that he 's rescued with that lost to but it now has been found , when he brings it home he says there wi , he says he calls together his friends and his neighbours , saying to them rejoice with me ! |
| 19 | He had been speaking nothing less than the truth when he put it well down the list of those he had seen . |