Example sentences of "when he [vb past] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it had been easy to ignore them , not to listen , to walk away , when he believed them to be just dirt . |
| 2 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 3 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 4 | Antony cleverly exploited this principle when he told them of Caesar 's will . |
| 5 | Their pay was , however , increased when he loaned them to Madame Rasimi to work in Lyons and Bordeaux , and they were proud to be able to send almost ten shillings weekly to their mothers . |
| 6 | What happened to the rest of them when he left them on Epping 's still rustic station , at the extreme eastern end of the Central Line , was their business or misfortune . |
| 7 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 8 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 9 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 10 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 11 | But as Chomsky himself remarked when he abandoned them with some reluctance as theoretical constructs , these kernel sentences actually have considerable intuitive appeal . |
| 12 | THE Tory MP Mr David Tredinnick ( Bosworth ) provoked fury from the Liberal Democrats during the Queen 's speech debate when he accused them of ‘ doughnutting ’ — sitting in a tight circle around their spokesman in order to give the impression on television that the Commons was full . |
| 13 | Only Chris Roberts in Melody Maker mounted an attack of any substance when he accused them of sounding ‘ one-dimensional ’ and ‘ piss-poor on mystery and magic . ’ |
| 14 | In Isaiah 63:10 , 11 we read that the people on whom God had set his love ‘ rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit ’ , although he had put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them when he rescued them from Egypt . |
| 15 | Other women at the city council office where he worked hid when he chased them with a syringe filled with water , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | When he chased them around the office , he felt young and alive again . |
| 17 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 18 | Murad II came out of retirement to inflict a severe defeat on this motley force when he confronted them at Varna . |
| 19 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 20 | The former Barnsley striker , who cost Crewe Alexandra a club record £80,000 when he joined them from Oakwell two years ago , signed for Scarborough on a free transfer last spring . |
| 21 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |