Example sentences of "when he [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor Frankenstein , Shelley 's future wife , Mary Godwin , will publish a novel about you , using you as a dire example of the way man becomes isolated from nature when he seeks to control nature . |
| 2 | He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’ |
| 3 | Furthermore when he does give way and claim it for his own , he loses it almost immediately to Gollum , who bites off Ring and finger with it . |
| 4 | But his beat is often sluggish and lifeless , and when he does move things along he is apt to produce a coarse effect with his punched-out accents ( listen for example to ‘ Cease to beauty ’ or ‘ The flocks shall leave the mountains ’ ) or his aggressively pushy rhythms ( as in ‘ Happy we ’ or ‘ Love sounds th ’ alarm ’ ) . |
| 5 | We shot the son who never calls , then when he does call Beattie complains he never visits ; the Mrs Jones commercial , done in almost one or two takes ; the ‘ Happy Birthday ’ song ; an answering machine , starring only my voice and my son Melvyn ( it was actually my favourite and was never shown ) ; and the one which launched a cache of catch phrases — the ‘ Ology ’ commercial , coincidentally starring Jacob Krichefsky , son of Bernard and Judith , my Muswell Hill neighbours . |
| 6 | His letters are sent back , and when he tries to approach Rose in a restaurant he is ignored , then ejected . |
| 7 | Erm , St John , towards the end of the novel is described as erm he , when he 's asked Jane and she pleads for quarter of hour 's time to think |
| 8 | Is that something you can easily forget , pulling a man 's trousers on when he 's got handcuffs on and lying on his front ? |
| 9 | ‘ I know you did , dear , and I appreciate it , I really do , and so will your father when he 's had time to think about it ; but you must admit , he does have a point — about David Markham , I mean . |
| 10 | It is immediately noticeable when he fails to return McKendrick 's greeting and draws attention , aphoristically , to the linguistic paradox emerging from their comments on the photograph of Anderson ( " Young therefore old . |
| 11 | I was therefore interested to read the reply of the then NIO Security Minister , Michael Mates , to a Parliamentary written question by Ulster Unionist Home Affairs spokesman , David Trimble in Hansard earlier this year , when Mr Trimble asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he intends to end slopping-out at each of the province 's prisons . |
| 12 | Then , when he comes to give examples of ‘ the multiplicity of language-games ’ , the very first is : giving orders , and obeying them . |
| 13 | The kids , aged , typically , eight and nine , are baffled to receive the complete works of Shakespeare , especially when he starts reciting Hamlet over the Christmas pud . |
| 14 | It seems as though he would n't hurt a fly , except there is an inkling that he could become nasty when he starts to throw fruit and vegetables at the cat , who is as suspicious of this ‘ foreigner ’ as the natives . |
| 15 | ‘ But you know he 's getting a little scared when he starts making noises like that . |
| 16 | To ask the Attorney-General when he expects to bring prosecutions under the War Crimes Act 1991 . |
| 17 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 18 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 19 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 20 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 21 | ‘ Jorge will come back for you when he has settled Señor Mitchell . ’ |