Example sentences of "he [verb] when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , but how can I make him eat when he refuses ? ’ |
| 2 | In turn , she told him of her life under Benedicta 's wing , making him laugh when she related her earlier antics and gave creditable impersonations of the good Sisters . |
| 3 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 4 | gives him an overdraft facility of so much money enable him to work when he moved , and they reneged on it ! |
| 5 | She hugged him to her , stayed by his side , let him speak when he wanted to speak , held him when he cried . |
| 6 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 7 | Yet she had n't the heart to forbid him to smoke when he had so few comforts left . |
| 8 | I felt responsible because I encouraged him to be in the group in the first place , I persuaded him to stay when he wanted to go and yet in the end we asked him to leave , ’ says Gedge . |
| 9 | You could almost hear him purring when he got near anything wi' cogs and pistons . ’ |
| 10 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 11 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 12 | The monster discovered who his creator was and where he lived when he found some papers as a result he travelled to Geneva . |
| 13 | He relented when she blushed and looked as if she was about to start trembling . |
| 14 | He fainted when they moved him , it was such an upheaval thought we 'd lost him then , and then on a beautiful air bed and he looked |
| 15 | It 's like a glowing curriculum vitae was the first thing he produced when he learned how to write . |
| 16 | Right on one of them this bloke it says he hypnotises them and he goes when I click my fingers you will become my servant and he 's about to click his fingers like that when somebody comes and rescues them . |
| 17 | Ooh you want to tell her when he goes when he leaves me in here with this door unlocked ! |
| 18 | It 's where he goes when he has to write a speech … ’ |
| 19 | This reputation he cemented when he founded the ‘ University of Woodford Square ’ , a university offering free education for the masses ! |
| 20 | ‘ We might as well say the Rosary now , ’ he announced when he put pencil and paper away , taking out his beads and letting them dangle loudly . |
| 21 | ‘ That too quick for you ? ’ he asked when they arrived three seconds later . |
| 22 | What a shock he got when he turned the corner to find the entire corridor overgrown by mountains and mountains of wild plants . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you still in a state of indecision ? ’ he probed when she did n't go on . |
| 24 | And he admits he cries when he sees film of the glory days in Italy when Gazza was ready to become the best footballer in the world . |
| 25 | She was not a greatly intelligent woman , being one of those persons who always seem busy without ever achieving anything in particular , and it never failed to amaze her that her son could remember what he read when she had difficulty remembering the day of the week . |
| 26 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 27 | And so , he phoned when he got home and Mr was in and and then when Mr came out he told Miss to mind the class cos he did n't get up till late . |
| 28 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 29 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 30 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |