Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [conj] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A playwright once responded to someone who asked him about the message of his play that when he wanted to send messages he did so by telegram . |
| 2 | The thought of his wife jarred him guiltily out of his fantasy and when he glanced up Karen was smiling at him . |
| 3 | ‘ He does n't look too bad because of his coat but when you handle him , he is just a bag of bones . ’ |
| 4 | His hands were manacled behind his back except when he ate or slept . |
| 5 | In September 1814 he declared in his diary that when he became rich he would hire figure painters . |
| 6 | He hated her more in his sobriety than when he was drunk . |
| 7 | Er Mike said in his autobiography that when they got the play and converted it to film , they changed the age of the character for a start , cos in the play it was written in the late fifties by Bill and it was written for a man approaching his forties . |
| 8 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 9 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 10 | There , whilst waiting , he had made the mistake of sitting down , and now discovered to his chagrin that when he wanted to stand again his legs would not respond . |
| 11 | And do you remember we went to er David 's er , one Sunday with me to his grave and when we come out of cemetery that public house across the road |
| 12 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 13 | Aggie accompanied the gangling totter to his cart and when she peered into the cardboard box and saw the kitten she shook her head sadly . |
| 14 | I knocked on his door and when he answered I could tell from his face that he 'd been crying . |
| 15 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 16 | Felicity asked David then about his ambitions and when he had admitted them , she said : |
| 17 | She waited for his answer and when he remained silent , wondered what he must have done . |