Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driven beyond sense , she made no protest when he scooped her easily into his arms and strode deeper into the forest . |
| 2 | There was a certain speculation in her glance now when she looked at him ; she listened when he advised her on her investment portfolio , and — increasingly — she took his advice . |
| 3 | And it had been easy to ignore them , not to listen , to walk away , when he believed them to be just dirt . |
| 4 | LAST PICTURE : The photo taken by Robin on the ice ledge when he believed he was about to die |
| 5 | And before I even started , he called me over and he was the sort of person who , when he signalled you over , you tended to go over there , and he said here , it says here on this programme that we 're finishing at four thirty . |
| 6 | When he woke it was suddenly , and to a sight of beauty he had never dreamed he might see . |
| 7 | When he woke it was to find her sitting beside him on the bed , watching him . |
| 8 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 9 | He dreamt that he was in the coils of a giant worm , and when he woke he found the bedclothes wrapped tightly around him . |
| 10 | When he woke he was lying in Dad 's bed . |
| 11 | A silver fish-hook tangled in his curls , dangled by Izzie , and when he woke she was tugging gently on his hair . |
| 12 | This was a relief as his coughing at night had irritated us , and it meant that Alex could stop hitting him with a broom handle when he woke us up . |
| 13 | When he was reviled , he did not revile in return ; When he suffered he did not threaten But trusted to him who judges justly . |
| 14 | He found nothing on Josie but a couple of folded Kleenex and a Tube ticket , but then when he rolled her over he heard a faint clink of metal on stone . |
| 15 | As Jim Smith 's side recovered from their epic tie with Liverpool , Beresford said he was misunderstood when he revealed he wanted to play Premier League football next season . |
| 16 | He signalled the first clear signs of disillusionment with Taylor when he revealed he was canvassing his fellow Council members about the events of the past six weeks . |
| 17 | He was aghast when he read it , for the problem was one that he had already solved 15 years before . |
| 18 | And when he read it , he did n't quite like it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Pressed on the justification for killing non-combatant musicians at Deal , he added : ‘ Your Minister of Defence gave the answer to that when he said they were marines first and musicians second . ’ |
| 22 | David Norman used his words more precisely when he said they were ectothermic reptiles which were able to keep their bodies at a constant temperature ‘ by being very large and living in a warm , mild climate . ’ |
| 23 | Pipkin was right when he said they were n't fighters . |
| 24 | I , I just said to him , when he said we 've got these census point ahead I said well we 've got certain restrictions , you know , we 've certain rules and regulations we 've got ta comply with I mean I did n't reel off any of this blah . |
| 25 | What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later , and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers , the brewers John Smith . |
| 26 | What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later , and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers , the brewers John Smith . |
| 27 | And , when he said he could , went on to enquire whether he could also remember the Thirty Years War . |
| 28 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 29 | When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred . |
| 30 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |