Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey said , ‘ Not when you are around maybe , but when he goes across to see the Wilsons ’ cat … ’ |
| 2 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 3 | There was great jubilation in the family when he returned home to tell them that he was to start in the Despatch Department in two weeks ' time , in the huge new office in Edge Lane where Eileen worked . |
| 4 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 5 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 6 | That had been when he had just engaged himself to me . |
| 7 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |
| 8 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |
| 9 | He wanted to read philosophy but the university refused him ; so did the cinema school and the drama faculty ( though to the amused admiration of his friends in the theatre , he did eventually attend , as a student , after the successful opening of The Garden Party , and when he had already completed his best play , The Memorandum ( which remains probaby his most effective play ) . |
| 10 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 11 | Of these eight are from Miller and they give an insight into the work of the Chelsea Gardener when he had probably reached the peak of his career . |
| 12 | He could remember a time when he had fallen asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow , and when he had always had a healthy appetite . |
| 13 | And Herod , when he had privily called the wise men , enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared . |
| 14 | And there was one real chance of an equalizer , what was doing to miss the target completely with a header when he had only to beat ? |
| 15 | Eventually , he was too weak to make his way to the stream of water and , when he had sparingly drunk the supply he had collected in his flask , he could only lie still on the rough rock where he had finally stumbled and fallen . |
| 16 | She remembered , too , Canon Wheeler 's unexpected appearance at Ian 's attic office when he had perhaps expected to find it empty . |
| 17 | ‘ His manners , ’ she said indignantly , when he had reluctantly left , peering at his watch and bemoaning the urgency of surgery hours . |
| 18 | Faldo ticked a four on the 18th , written down by his playing partner Bernhard Langer , when he had actually made a five . |
| 19 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |
| 20 | ‘ I was attempting to retrieve my own property , ’ Ashley said , and when he strode forward to look into the skip she pointed . |
| 21 | The King throughout was in favour of an Election and the Prime Minister when he left certainly seemed more courageous and more firm in his conviction that a General Election was necessary . |
| 22 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |
| 23 | She stared back at him , refusing to give an inch , then jumped when he leant forward to run a finger softly down the smooth curve of her cheek . |
| 24 | But then in the sermons when he came here to preach er I did n't see any sign of nervousness myself . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm perfectly safe , and I 'm within the speed-limit , ’ Ashley added pungently , when he craned forward to inspect the speedometer . |
| 26 | When he stepped forward to use the other hand , something cracked into the small of his back , and he stumbled . |
| 27 | NIGEL MANSELL last night gave a glimpse of how much he will miss Formula One when he limped forward to collect his World Drivers ' Championship trophy at a glittering ceremony in Paris . |
| 28 | And I have smacked him really hard when he 'd nearly had me crying right ? |
| 29 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 30 | I taxed him about it once when he 'd just dinged the rear corner of a new Porsche . |