Example sentences of "[verb] when he [vb -s] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but it hurts when he turns his head . |
| 2 | It is true to say that Tamburlaine sets himself very few limits , and this is shown when he makes his aspirations clear by telling his friends that he wants ‘ to become immortal like the Gods ’ . |
| 3 | He has no intention of following Esau to Seir , as he reveals when he leaves his brother and travels on towards the west . |
| 4 | Compare it to the way a bobby pounds his beat or to the leisurely stroll Prince Philip adopts when he follows his wife on a walkabout . |
| 5 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 6 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 7 | Mr Nicos , the manager of the Kamara , will be welcoming Club guests for the sixth summer running when he opens his doors in Summer '90 and once again he is looking forward to dealing exclusively with us . |
| 8 | But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ? |
| 9 | I have a great respect for the floating voter and I am confident he will see which side his bread is buttered when he casts his vote this time . |
| 10 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 11 | I mean when he does his window displays you 've never seen anything like it , you know , so , I think he 's got quite er , he 's quite good at things like that , but erm , we 've tamed down a bit now . |