Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] when he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then he may join me indoors when he 's had enough , as I already have . ’ |
| 2 | Bath , shave , teeth , relief , groans , another coffee , Henry 's dinner money , where 's Alice ( was she home when he went to sleep last night ? ) , mail , radio news , feed the cats , wash , dress , briefcase , wake up ! wake up ! |
| 3 | standing up at this end was a lot were you here when he went through all the old headlines of er |
| 4 | It might not be important but it would be helpful to have you there when he talks to his parents . |
| 5 | You may have time to prepare for it while the patient is in hospital , but the reality is still likely to hit you hard when he comes home . |
| 6 | But with details Major Morton was less forthcoming , and Edward 's unease turned into something deeper when he named the ‘ traitors ’ who had drunk the shameful toast . |
| 7 | Rupert Moon started and finished the first , bagging his first Test try in only his second international , while new cap Simon Hill went one better when he claimed a kick and chase try after only seven minutes on the international stage . |
| 8 | Beware him most when he smiles his widest , he told himself . |
| 9 | His Principal looked at him suspiciously when he asked for the day off , and he stuttered , ‘ She brought me up , you know . ’ |
| 10 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 11 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 12 | The Report of the Consultative Committee on Continuation Schools ( no doubt under the influence of Sadler ) quoted him approvingly when he wrote that apprentices should learn ‘ the truth of the maxim that the meaning of life is not to rule but to render service to one 's neighbour , service to one 's calling , service to one 's native country , service to truth and to justice ’ . |
| 13 | Yes , Arnold Thomas had done a bad thing in deserting him just when he needed him most , and he had been a rogue of the worst kind to have stolen money into the bargain ; but if he could only find his son , he would tell him that all was forgiven , and that he wanted him here , in his rightful place , at the helm of his father 's business . |
| 14 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 15 | I tried to leave him once when he got like this . |
| 16 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 17 | He disturbed her even when he said nothing , because she knew she could n't read his mind . |
| 18 | Agnes was nodding her head now , and as she did so she was thinking , I only hope your father does n't find him there when he comes back from one of his trips . |
| 19 | Joe found her there when he came back from the vegetable field . |
| 20 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 21 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |
| 22 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 23 | Well come on ! she urged him mentally when he hesitated . |
| 24 | She had n't taken him seriously when he said he was giving up . |
| 25 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 26 | One of my colleagues , John Savage , put it forcibly when he said in the programme that pure road racing — that is racing on public roads — was at the crossroads because of lack of numbers and I 'm inclined to agree with him . |
| 27 | Guha surely had it right when he likened Littlewoods to a giant tanker that takes ages to change direction . |
| 28 | Wilson said it all when he said ‘ after half a century of democratic advance , the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl ’ . |
| 29 | My brother , your father , will have all my money and my house after my death , and you will have it all when he dies . |
| 30 | A FRENCH driver took it literally when he asked for directions and was told to ‘ go straight over the roundabout ’ . |