Example sentences of "that when he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much earlier at the last supper Jesus had promised that when he returned to God , he would ask for a gift to be sent to his friends . |
| 2 | I hoped that when he returned in May … ’ |
| 3 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 4 | I saw that despite his good looks Syl was a little too short and a little too fat , that when he went about his garden stripped to bathing trunks he aroused not desire but embarrassment . |
| 5 | Nor are the British unaware that when he looked after Andy Wenzel and Paul Frommelt with Liechtenstein he was in charge of world beaters . |
| 6 | Even his fond parents do n't call him that when he rampages through the flat creating mayhem , and Joyce was recently heard to declare that she 'd rather do Rob 's tax returns than look after the baby . |
| 7 | It 's just that when he talks to people he gets a bit frightened . |
| 8 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 9 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 10 | As we have seen , Gandhi recognizes that no single religion can embody the whole truth , and that all particular religions contain errors since they are human constructs or formulations , but does it follow necessarily that when he speaks of Religion underlying all human constructs , or at the heart of all religions , he is referring to an ‘ essence ’ of an ‘ entity ’ or a ‘ primordial form ’ of religion after the fashion of Schleiermacher ? |
| 11 | The real trouble with old Tom had been that when he came into contact with the evil mind , the scheming , devious , manipulative mind of some murderers , he could not bear it . |
| 12 | In any case , he knew that when he came of age he would be able to obey God 's commandment to be baptised . |
| 13 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 14 | Erm but I 'm hoping that one day he 'll see I know he 's seen my work and I think I 've got a sneaking suspicion that when he came in here he was gon na ask me to do it . |
| 15 | He is frightened that when he gets into the corridor he will start crying like the twelve-year-old boy . |
| 16 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
| 17 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 18 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 19 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 20 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 21 | The Earl of Shrewsbury once told me that when he walked in the park , Wolsey would suffer no one to come within bowshot of him . |
| 22 | The useful information in this book is shot through with the engaging assertion that the books are biographical and that when he journeyed to some of the scenes of Hornblower 's exploits the author was truly following in the steps of his hero . |
| 23 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 24 | However , Howe was turning into an alcoholic owing to his frequenting many alehouses around Edinburgh and this , coupled with his deafness , meant he was preyed upon by unscrupulous acquaintances so that when he died in 1836 at Newhaven , near Edinburgh , he was almost a pauper . |
| 25 | He noted gloomily that when he dined with the King in May the Simpsons were both present , and that when another semi-political dinner party was given in July Mrs Simpson was announced in the Court Circular as being present alone without her husband . |
| 26 | Paul knows , not only from pre-conversion experience but , as a careful reading of Romans 7 will show , from painful experience of struggle and failure as a Christian , that when he relies on himself and his own resources ( such seems to be the nuance of ‘ I of myself ’ in Romans 7:25 ) , he remains subject to the law of sin . |
| 27 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 28 | Mr Templeton said that when he arrived at the fire after 10pm , he had spoken to a man who was being treated for injuries in an ambulance . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's a comfortable place to sleep , ’ he thought , and he was so tired after his long , disappointing day at the fair that when he climbed into the cart , he fell asleep immediately . |
| 30 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |