Example sentences of "when i [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there .
2 The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty .
3 When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once .
4 ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship .
5 When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score .
6 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
7 But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank .
8 Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby .
9 ‘ Proctor played well when I brought him into the team .
10 ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news .
11 I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy .
12 Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote .
13 ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’
14 When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long .
15 Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite .
16 And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it .
17 ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry .
18 When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been .
19 When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’
20 When I confronted him outside the refectory and insisted that the resident be allowed to finish his meal , he exploded in a torrent of foul language and vowed he would never return .
21 The hon. Gentleman can raise those matters when I call him in the debate , as I hope to do .
22 When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens .
23 He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits .
24 We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life .
25 I was quite surprised at his reaction when I informed him of the death of ‘ Egg and chips twice ’ .
26 When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince .
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