Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 2 | She had first had her suspicions years before when he had sent her a photograph taken on his twenty-first birthday . |
| 3 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 4 | Major Vine , a small , strutting , dark-eyed , bad-tempered stoat of a man , always agreed with the Colonel when he managed to hear what the Colonel had actually said . |
| 5 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
| 6 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 7 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 8 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 9 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |