Example sentences of "when he give " in BNC.

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1 The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’
2 Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ?
3 Tchaikovsky was the first to break that mould when he gave the Sapphire Fairy ( now one of Florestan 's sisters ) a solo to a 5/4 time signature .
4 England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions .
5 I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 .
6 However , he fully redeemed himself next time out at Newbury when he gave 2st to Springholm and beat him with a bit in hand .
7 The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated .
8 We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence .
9 When he gave me a copy of his complete works in September of 1943 inscribed from a ‘ sincere friend ’ , I noted the four lines opposite the title page :
10 But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption .
11 The attention he gave you , when he gave you attention , was absolute .
12 She used to hug and kiss him when he gave her presents .
13 I saw this piece some time ago by Richard Burton in which he was talking about what happened to him when he gave up booze .
14 Brightness became an international star when he gave Russian scientists the slip last September .
15 Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip .
16 When he gave warning that internal rebellion might be possible there , the passage was deleted .
17 So Jigoro Kano , the founding father of modern judo , learned to his cost when he gave demonstrations in Japan and America .
18 Its American parent makes watches in Little Rock , Arkansas , whose favourite son wore a Timex ticker when he gave his State of the Union address .
19 The light above the front door was switched off , and a cleaner emerged from the theatre with a black plastic bag of rubbish and a broom , and began to brush the foyer , ignoring Jude — who was the last visible occupant — until he reached her , when he gave her a glance of such venom she decided to put up her umbrella and stand on the darkened step .
20 Crock ! ’ screamed the Sydney crowd 88 years ago when he gave Clem Hill run-out .
21 Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire .
22 Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry .
23 Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain .
24 The first Grand Prix success for Lotus was not , ironically , for the Lotus team , but was by Stirling Moss ( GB ) in a privately entered rear-engined Lotus 18 in the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix , when he gave a superb display to beat New Zealander Bruce McLaren .
25 Ho seemed ready to respond when he gave an interview to a Swedish journalist , Löfgren .
26 Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there .
27 The need for the court 's inherent jurisdiction to be invoked on this basis was evidently established to the satisfaction of Cazalet J. when he gave the local authority leave to apply on 24 January 1992 .
28 ‘ Yes , but when he gave those orders , he did n't know what we know — about something stopping you from going in .
29 When he gave the order , they began to cut the corn in the field where I was hiding .
30 Lord Scarman was a judge in the Court of Appeal when he gave and published the Hamlyn lectures in 1974 , which were controversial , as was the Dimbleby lecture given by Lord Denning in 1980 .
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