Example sentences of "when he [vb past] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 2 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 3 | The estrangement became even more profound when he told them that he was gay . |
| 4 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 5 | When he told me that he had inherited the cardinal 's robes of his predecessor , Cardinal Heenan , and I asked if they fitted , he said , ‘ No . |
| 6 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 7 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 8 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 9 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 10 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |
| 11 | He had spoken to no one about his discovery of Merymose 's body , not even to Taheb , who was distracted by the preparations for her reluctant departure , and had not questioned him when he told her that Merymose had not appeared at their meeting place . |
| 12 | He had told Merymose nothing of his thoughts about Ipuky and Reni — sensing the policeman 's disappointment and mistrust when he told him that he had been able to find out no more than he had himself . |
| 13 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |
| 14 | We were discussing dunnocks with a well known ornithologist when he told us that , as a schoolboy , he had colour-ringed the dunnocks in his garden and was surprised to find three different adults feeding a single clutch of young . |
| 15 | Does the Minister agree with the figure given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Dispatch Box when he told us that there would be 40,000 mortgage rescues this year ? |
| 16 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 17 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 18 | When he satisfied himself that it had n't , he turned to Larsen . |
| 19 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |