Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis Tighe , prosecuting , said Taylor had visited Miss Preston to discuss their relationship but he attacked her when they began arguing . |
| 2 | When he asked me when they opened . |
| 3 | Remember he got one when he went |
| 4 | ‘ That 's where the mangle is and that 's where it stays , ’ he told her when he 'd done . |
| 5 | well he told me when I claimed |
| 6 | Thus , despite all the effort he had devoted to the cause of German unification , he opposed it when it came through the force of Prussian arms and Bismarckian diplomacy . |
| 7 | " I want to know what you 're up to , " he said , and I do n't think he believed me when I told him I was only trying to find out whether there were any rabbits who wanted to leave the warren . |
| 8 | Starke looked at the finger , so he withdrew it when he remembered how dirty his fingernails were . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect he cursed me when he cursed Pat , only I was so healthy the effect was delayed , or perhaps my rotten paintings were the effect , and I only see it now . |
| 10 | He followed her when she went towards the door , and detained her . |
| 11 | He followed her when she moved towards the cliffs and began to climb up the path that curved and twisted on the cliff-face . |
| 12 | He contacted her when he heard of her research into women 's self-defence and invited her to his surgery . |
| 13 | ‘ He ordered it when he checked in . ’ |
| 14 | But he corrected me when I mused on the potency of class hatred and class anger in the Sheffield meeting . |
| 15 | To be on the safe side , he burnt his when he got home , presumably unaware that this was , liturgically , the ‘ correct ’ and Catholic thing to do , though some forty-six weeks too early . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think I can do it , ’ is how he put it when I phoned him . |
| 17 | One leading designer said he liked it when he saw the front , until he realised the ‘ front ’ was the back . |
| 18 | He said nothing when she had finished . |
| 19 | But I stooped like lightning and got the nail up and into my skirt pocket — specially put on — and I was standing exactly as he left me when he jumped back . |
| 20 | ‘ He left them when he left the house . |
| 21 | He had no experience of deep love , but he recognized it when it struck him hard and unexpectedly . |
| 22 | For some reason , he disliked it when she behaved badly in front of Marjorie . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she denied , ‘ or only that he missed her when she returned to Ireland . |