Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mig Romerez did not even recognise a football when I showed him one but his exotic appearance should be enough to impress those bumpkins in ‘ The Tip ’ crowd . |
| 2 | I did n't drive to work , so he would n't recognize my car when I followed him . |
| 3 | He reminded himself to ask one of the guards when they brought him his next meal … |
| 4 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 5 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 6 | If he left you in the lurch when you needed him most . ’ |
| 7 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 8 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 9 | Michael was already there ; he sensed their disappointment when they saw him , they had wanted it for themselves . |
| 10 | He was about to close the window when something made him pause . |
| 11 | He filched them from my wardrobe when I kicked him out . |
| 12 | He would welcome the earl 's promised offering gladly , and withdraw in good order to his own monastery , though what he would visit on Tutilo when he got him safely back there might be dreadful to think of . |
| 13 | But it is worth mentioning what a very experienced and established psychiatrist told me about his work when I interviewed him . |
| 14 | It 's just that Hubert was always such a fool when I knew him , and I hoped he might have acquired a little common sense in the meantime . |
| 15 | AFTER months of enduring the relentless taunts of Robin Cook , my Somerset neighbour William Waldegrave was in remarkably equable mood when I found him washing his car on Friday morning . |
| 16 | Bronson fell in love with Kim when she comforted him after the death of his actress wife Jill Ireland from cancer two years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 've infected me already a few more minutes wo n't make much difference , ’ then grunted with laughter when she hit him . |
| 18 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 19 | A BEER-loving juror astonished a judge when he slipped him a note asking : ‘ When is it dinner time ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ D ’ , my husband , did n't accept me loving another girl when I told him I was a lesbian , but after a while he accepted me as Carla — 100 per cent . |
| 21 | I do n't know which was more humiliating , that git 's performance , or the ape-like dance and inane grinning of Reg Pybus when I pulled him off . |
| 22 | All at once I was gusted along , and really felt : a heartbeat when I saw him , a warmth when he touched me ; I smelt the flowers he bought me and the spicy perfume he put on his skin . |
| 23 | ‘ What she told us meant just that , even though he was only a boy when she knew him . |
| 24 | The boy when I saw him was sobbing hysterically . |
| 25 | Money enough for Lionel to idle away his days , to be all the Season in London , to be up in Yorkshire when it pleased him … |
| 26 | I was quite surprised at his reaction when I informed him of the death of ‘ Egg and chips twice ’ . |
| 27 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 28 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 29 | ‘ Exactly , and it did n't improve matters from Alfred 's point of view when he discovered that she was already a couple of months pregnant by Matthew when she married him . ’ |
| 30 | He was just about to start on his nineteenth nervous breakdown when I left him . ’ |