Example sentences of "when he [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 2 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 3 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 4 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 5 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 6 | Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design . |
| 7 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 8 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 9 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 10 | you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ? |
| 11 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 12 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 13 | But a financier : when he lays it on the line it 's going to be portraits of presidents cashable in solid US any place on the globe . |
| 14 | It was made by the furious last sweep of his indestructible sword Durandal , when he struck it against the rock in a vain effort to break it and so stop this epic weapon from falling into the hands of the Saracens : |
| 15 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 16 | John Wesley discussed faith in these terms when he compared it to a ‘ spiritual sense ’ in his Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion : |
| 17 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 18 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 19 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 20 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 21 | I mean , it was a windy day as well and I do n't think that helped because the wind was sort of blowing into the mike but er and when he took it to college there was this noise all the time , he must have had it clipped under here somewhere ! |
| 22 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 23 | I radioed one of my men to bring along an extra trailer and I told him to tip it up when he brought it into the field to make sure it was clean |
| 24 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 25 | She did get out of his car without a word when he stopped it outside her address — but so did he . |
| 26 | The film became the American entry , by invitation , into that year 's Venice film festival and the New York Times ' critic , Bosley Crowther , summed up his nation 's embarrassment when he described it as a ‘ brutal picture which caused diplomats to mop their brows — a vicious account of boozing , fighting , pot-smoking , vandalizing and raping done by a gang of sickle riders who are obviously drawn to represent the swastika-wearing Hell 's Angels , one of several disreputable gangs on the west coast . |
| 27 | The architect and writer Frank Pennink was right when he described it as ‘ an outstanding course where anyone who can play to his handicap is doing well ’ . |
| 28 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
| 29 | Even when he snuffed it on Mount Cavalry , he knew he would live again . ’ |
| 30 | When he did it for himself , the law jailed him |