Example sentences of "but when the [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor decides to talk to Bennett in his cabin , but when the man tells him to go away he forces open the door — only to find a tape recorder and an escape hatch door in the floor . |
| 2 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 3 | But when the word reached him , and especially when it was seen that Lord Grey himself was with the party , thereafter I can not be sure . |
| 4 | He was a regular at fashionable Glasgow nightclubs like ‘ La Ronde ’ in Sauchiehall Street but when the mood took him , which was most nights ending with a ‘ Y ’ , he would wander into corner pubs and hold court . |
| 5 | Cortot could be a master of Gallic understatement but when the mood took him he hardly did things by halves . |
| 6 | But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes , yellow with age , he looked exactly what he was — an orphan in a workhouse , ready for a life of misery , hunger , and neglect . |