Example sentences of "that when he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burn said that when he praised the article in The Saturday Review and asked Donaldson who was briefing Palmerston , Donaldson abruptly left . |
| 2 | It seems likely that when he received these papers , Palmerston , to forestall those critics who said that he was out of touch with current architectural ideas , instructed Donaldson to arrange for him to meet Lamb and other architects who agreed with his views . |
| 3 | In the Northern Notebook item last week about an Order of St. John honour for Dr. Iestyn Williams it was reported , in good faith from information supplied by Dr. Williams , that when he received the award he would be ‘ accompanied by his wife , Celia . ’ |
| 4 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 5 | I hoped that when he returned in May … ’ |
| 6 | Much earlier at the last supper Jesus had promised that when he returned to God , he would ask for a gift to be sent to his friends . |
| 7 | Robyn swallowed and took a deep breath , trying to compose herself so that when he returned she could say that it was all right , she felt fine now . |
| 8 | As he passed , his leg struck the side of the bridge and an old witch prophesied that when he returned his head would strike the same spot . ’ |
| 9 | The Purchaser wants to know that when he takes control of the Business at Completion , it accords with what he had previously been told . |
| 10 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 11 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 12 | He played only once in that series but was then brought back for the rubber in India and made a big impact , so that when he had Steele 's wicket at Headingley he chalked up his hundredth Test wicket in the record time of two years 144 days . |
| 13 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |
| 14 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 15 | She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did except that when he had given two low bows she did ‘ two quick bobs ’ . |
| 16 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 17 | He did n't add that when he had first telephoned them they had n't wanted to know . |
| 18 | He had seen that when he had been watching her ; had seen how she looked at everything with that curious , almost arrogant stare of hers . |
| 19 | Then he executed a half-somersault and twisted so that when he had stabilised he was level with Rostov , but inverted . |
| 20 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 21 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 22 | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way . |
| 23 | He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote . |
| 24 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 25 | She was so surprised by the warmth of his smile , by his being able to smile so frankly , so like a friend , that when he said he was going to lunch at the Blue Lagoon and would she come too , she said yes , all right , without thinking . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew very well that when he said that he meant ‘ in spite of whatever help I shall give you ’ . |
| 27 | Mr McNally : ‘ Are you aware that when he authorised the extension that he told Mr Anderson , and indeed told me at 10.30am yesterday , that there was not sufficient evidence at that stage to charge Mr Anderson following the four interviews on May 24 ? ’ |
| 28 | What frustrated his old fans was that when he went it more or less alone , as on 1982 's masterfully stark and turbulent Music For A New Society , Cale produced what he also regards as his best album , ‘ because all the old pain was right there . ’ |
| 29 | I saw that despite his good looks Syl was a little too short and a little too fat , that when he went about his garden stripped to bathing trunks he aroused not desire but embarrassment . |
| 30 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |