Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , use mine , ’ I said blithely — which , of course , he did , and put the property in his own name so that when he sold it out from under me there would be no legal come-back ! |
| 2 | In view of what Marc had said about the next few days , Sarella was surprised when he sought her out before dinner . |
| 3 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 4 | When he got her on to the pavement , she sagged against the school wall and would not move . |
| 5 | In fairness to him , Con was kinder than that , even when he got me out of the secretaryship last year . |
| 6 | And he says , when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t' motorway it 's still vibrating . |
| 7 | I was in the kitchen when he played it back on the TV — I remember that day so well — and he called me into the living room to take a look . |
| 8 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 9 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 10 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 11 | ‘ You recognised him when he followed us out of Greenwich . ’ |
| 12 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 13 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 14 | ‘ There are two sides to our operation , ’ he had explained , when he led her out of the office block and across a bleak enclosed courtyard , where footsteps had scored a diagonal path through the snow , towards a high windowless wall of corrugated iron . |
| 15 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 16 | The light was very bright when he switched it back on . |
| 17 | ‘ Because what we 're aiming at , ’ he philosophizes to his young graduates , when he invites them round to dinner , in twos and threes , together with the Chases or the Waylands , and sometimes Freddie and Caroline , ‘ is something deeper than a little physical hardship . |
| 18 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 19 | I felt such a fool when he picked me up like that . |
| 20 | When he handed them over to the Syrians , the major received a special word of thanks from representatives of the country which would , ten years later , help the Americans to bomb Libya . |
| 21 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nicklaus took note of Cathy 's instruction , and later gave her the credit when he found himself back to his old form in that week 's skins ' game . |
| 24 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 25 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |