Example sentences of "[noun pl] when he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started gawking at the people in the stands when he came into the stretch . |
| 2 | Three days before Christmas Vernon was brushing down the front steps when he saw Meredith crossing the end of the street . |
| 3 | He sometimes kicks his legs when he does n't know what I 'm doing . |
| 4 | Sampson became the second ( Marsden was the first ) Yorkshire player to represent the Players against the Gentlemen when he played in the Lord 's fixture of 1841 . |
| 5 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 6 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 7 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 8 | Andrew was a toddler when I met him ; he was an expert at tantrums when he did n't get his own way . |
| 9 | Iain Macleod had tears in his eyes when he came up to congratulate Mollie . |
| 10 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
| 11 | His voice was calm and friendly , and Shelley was feeling happy because she had seen Miguelito again , and he had looked into her eyes when he asked ‘ Me quieres ? ’ |
| 12 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 13 | He does n't look you in the eyes when he talks ; he answers quietly with head bowed . |
| 14 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 15 | He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover 's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to love . |
| 16 | There was a distinct love light in his eyes when he looked at Jenny . |
| 17 | There were tears in his eyes when he crouched to gather up the debris , scooping it into a pile with both hands while Sweetheart roared with laughter . |
| 18 | He thought of the widow in her ramshackle hut at the end of the village and the gratitude in her eyes when he gave her a purse of coins . |
| 19 | It was just something in his eyes when he smiled and his voice when he talked to a woman . |
| 20 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
| 21 | ‘ Now , ’ Alexandra said to the hens when he had gone , ‘ come with me and I will show you where you will sleep . ’ |
| 22 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 23 | Irvine 's Jim Muir bids to his fellow Scots when he lines up against Tony Allcock — twice a former world champion — later today . |
| 24 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |
| 25 | A smile tugged at his lips when he remembered the dead peonies falling at his feet and Sweetheart 's totally unexpected laughter . |
| 26 | Moreover , the child is left free to listen to these songs when he likes . |
| 27 | He even put his arm around my shoulders when he wished me a merry Christmas . |
| 28 | Seb was forking hay from the loft above the stables when he heard his name being called from outside . |
| 29 | Corbett was just about to leave to collect his cob from the stables when he remembered something and hurried back to the ferrymaster . |
| 30 | Dropped goals from free kicks are no longer permissible ; hookers may raise their feet the moment the ball leaves the scrum-half 's hands ; and in the tackle the next player ( other than the tackler ) must be on his feet when he plays the ball . |