Example sentences of "when he be a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the first time he came out of the door when he was a little better , he shouted for Dick , who was in the top pasture . |
| 2 | But one particular time springs to mind when he was a little less tolerable . |
| 3 | I run the tips of my fingers over this beard at difficult moments and am reassured by its fibrous smoothness as much as my son used to be , when he was a little younger , by the feel of his old piece of blanket . |
| 4 | when he was a little |
| 5 | As he watched her squeeze through the stile and walk forward with the others , she seemed strange and unreal , like something he had imagined when he was a very little boy . |
| 6 | I remember my father saying when he was a very old man , ‘ Technique you can learn . |
| 7 | Even when he was a very little boy . |
| 8 | Mena 's everyday face is just stubborn , you could call it proud — she 's a countrywoman from a good province as they say — but Anna took to it , she did take to people — her infatuations Constanza says — she took to my father when he was a very young man and he was n't so good-looking either . |
| 9 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |