Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Middlesbrough gave him a chance , he had a nightmare debut against Oldham Reserves . |
| 2 | But when Patrick found him scoffing a large tea in the Royalbion marquee that was not the reason for his jubilation . |
| 3 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 4 | Lineker also reveals his anger when Taylor criticised him after an international against the Republic of Ireland and when he was dropped 24 hours before a friendly with France . |
| 5 | Fagan was standing at the door of the feedhouse when Nicandra approached him , as saucily as she was able , to demand handfuls of grain for her birds . |
| 6 | When Stoker approached him with a play intended for his master , Irving , taking no thought of the devotion shown by his factotum , reacted along a scale from dismissiveness to contempt . |
| 7 | When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless . |
| 8 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 9 | Again a shake of the head , and when Ward pressed him , repeating the question , Rodriguez said , ‘ Maybe . |
| 10 | When Madeleine offered him a cigarette , he hesitated , then took one . |
| 11 | He was just warming to his task when Reed sold him out . |
| 12 | Jean-Paul at first resisted ; eventually , when Edouard pressed him , and after changing their proposed schedule three times , he agreed to a week in the autumn of 1950 , when he would be on leave . |
| 13 | ‘ I think I was with Maurin when Edouard rang him . ’ |
| 14 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 15 | The fit had frightened Edward , and he would n't leave Anna 's side even when Ma told him it was time for bed . |
| 16 | And he 's at it again when Downes hits him with whatever 's to hand ; kills him ; wonders where he 's going to dump the corpse ; ca n't dress him — far too difficult dressing a corpse — ’ |
| 17 | When Napoleon asked him where God came into his theory of the cosmos , he replied shortly , ‘ I have no need of that hypothesis . ’ |
| 18 | That being so , the Capriati 's turned to Slozil , who had been in tear when Steffi presented him with a gold watch to mark their parting after five mostly triumphant years . |
| 19 | Except from a brief outburst from Sonny ( when Pat urges him to face reality , he protests , ‘ Reality is not life ! ’ ) , you would never know this play was the work of a poet rather than a TV comedy writer . |
| 20 | Draper was appalled when Branson telephoned him from Oxford on the Sunday evening , bubbling with enthusiasm for his new project . |
| 21 | He had recently shown interest when Paramount wanted him to play a homosexual murderer in a drama called The Witness , to be directed by Milos Forman . |
| 22 | Svidrigailov 's answer , when Raskolnikov asks him Shy do n't you see a doctor ? ’ is that he does n't need to be told he 's ill . |
| 23 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 24 | When Meredith asked him to pop out for cigarettes , he replied vulgarly , ‘ What did your last servant die of ? ’ |
| 25 | Thus , when Dennis offered him exactly half what he had been making , Lauda thought he 'd had a touch of sun . |
| 26 | And when Millie answered him , ‘ It … it was before Easter , in March . |
| 27 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 28 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 29 | Seb had two feet on the ladder when Melody took him by surprise and caught him in a hug . |
| 30 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |