Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] [verb] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | William claimed that Richard cheated by plunging his sword into William 's horse when he found that he could not win by fair means . |
| 2 | Lord Ackner noted that problems arose when the misrepresentation was that the accused was authorised to use his cheque guarantee card or credit card when he knew that he was not . |
| 3 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 4 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 5 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 6 | I now speak for my learned friend when I say that he will expert that . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 8 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 9 | Her heart missed a beat when she saw that he 'd brought the Dane with him . |
| 10 | How old was your father when he had when he stopped working ? |
| 11 | Alain became interesting to his father when he showed that he was exceptionally clever and had the same flair for finance . |
| 12 | Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week . |
| 13 | Outrage turned to agitation when she saw that he was jamming the key in the lock with such force that the flesh on his fingers was turning white . |
| 14 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 15 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 16 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 17 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
| 18 | Al Gore summed up the changing world when he said that he and Clinton were the first two leaders of their country to be born after 1945 . |
| 19 | Mansell stunned the Grand Prix race world when he revealed that he was packing up only four hours before he was due to start in his 178th Grand Prix . |
| 20 | This is a characteristic common to everyone and in fact Milton here shows us just how much of himself he puts into his Satan when we recall that he , as a Puritan , contended with his own pride , a fault with which he was most unhappy . |
| 21 | Franco repeated the message of his 2 December letter when he said that he did not " see any advantage in change " and that if he were ever to delegate the leadership of the government , it would only be when he was no longer able to carry out the functions of that position as well as those of head of state . |
| 22 | I could n't believe I had done it ; I had reached the point in a trainee pilot 's training when he feels that he can now really get some flying under his belt and his flying really starts . |
| 23 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 24 | Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John . |
| 25 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 26 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 27 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 28 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |