Example sentences of "when he did [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he did they showed no interest at all , they just said the officer concerned was not there . |
| 2 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 3 | When he did we all jumped up into the air . |
| 4 | When he did he usually denied that the complaints were justified — even when a civil rights officer ( myself ) was physically thrown out of Hastings Street [ RUC ] Station ! |
| 5 | It was three days before he appeared and when he did he was in uniform . |
| 6 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 7 | Everything was wrong with him — he would n't always come to meetings and when he did he was ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 8 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 9 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 10 | He rarely spoke to the rest of us peasants in the house , though when he did he was nothing but polite . |
| 11 | When he did he went into his house , opening his front door with his key . |
| 12 | Well he was hopeless yesterday , even had a kick of the ball , when he did he |
| 13 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 14 | My old hairdresser used to do this style , only it looked much better when he did it . |
| 15 | He did n't say much , but when he did it knocked you off your feet . |
| 16 | Once a good director , now a cheerful but notorious lush , he seldom worked nowadays and when he did it was only television . |
| 17 | Only it was cool when he did it ! |
| 18 | When he did it for himself , the law jailed him |
| 19 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
| 20 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |
| 21 | The killing had not been a rational act ; when he did it , Alex Household had been mentally ill . |
| 22 | Corbett rarely lost his temper and when he did it was always a pleasure to watch . |
| 23 | He did n't lose his temper very often , but when he did it was always with Gesner , and it was dramatic . |
| 24 | It was still out when he did it . |
| 25 | well you know if I , I said is it gon na cause any problems when he did it , cos it was er , it was er , to me |
| 26 | but when he did it I said oh my god you know I said yeah , but you know it 's there |
| 27 | And the other thing is that it 's erm er , er Jeremy had er er , inadvertently really , er I , I know that I could have crowned him when he did it , but he was getting er , taking the lamp from the bookcase erm , which is at the end of the bookcase through to his own room to use temporarily because in trying to get the shade off his , the old one there , he , he snapped the fitting , and why , when he did that , erm , he er , disconnected the phone and of course , wiped out all the memory you know , the numbers that that you put in ! |
| 28 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 29 | There was just a tiny blot on her happiness , and that was the knowledge that one day this man would want to settle down , and when he did she felt sure he would choose the companion of his last four years , the pretty Victoria . |