Example sentences of "when the [noun pl] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Harlow , appointed in 1560 , was himself the local vicar and his candidature was approved by the parishioners ; when the Goldsmiths examined him , they declared themselves satisfied without noting his qualifications and without recourse to external referees . |
| 2 | When the boys saw him , they ran towards him , calling out shrilly ‘ Up the Duke ! ’ he swung his sceptre at them and they ducked , shrieking . |
| 3 | And why should the Garrimpero heed the advice of the authorities when the authorities ignore him . |
| 4 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 5 | He was on holiday in Spain when the producers asked him to return early to reshoot one or two scenes . |
| 6 | The jury heard a tape-recording of an interview between police officers and Hammond , in which he sobbed repeatedly when the officers told him his daughter was dead . |
| 7 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 8 | And so every night when they got home there was all kinds of people , I mean you know say miners and anybody as well , they all surrounded this house and when the police brought him in , of course they were booing and all this business you see . |
| 9 | When the police ordered him to end it , he complied at once , his half-dozen supporters singing the National Anthem as they invariably did at the conclusion of their gatherings . |
| 10 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 11 | When the police found him later his head was almost severed from his neck , lolled through the fractured opening in a macabre way , the dead cigarette still tucked in the corner of the dead man 's mouth . |
| 12 | The magistrates heard that he had seemed to be drunk when the police stopped him . |
| 13 | He would do so , wrote Edward , ‘ out of love for you who are our lord and cousin and our very dear friend ’ , but only when the Scots obeyed him as their liege lord . |
| 14 | When the children ask him why he has contacted them , he replies : ‘ for security and insecurity xor insecurity andor communication ’ ( 81 ) . |
| 15 | Even when the men touched him , he did not fight , though he hated their touch . |