Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 2 | When I tell you the reason I 'm going you 'll wish you 'd let me go . |
| 3 | ‘ That will get stolen , ’ the minister of health exclaims when I show him the picture of the pressure cooker that is meant to be used as a steriliser in the dispensaries . |
| 4 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 5 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 6 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 7 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 8 | Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet |
| 9 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you , William , ’ Marie says to me when I give her the tea , and I say ‘ Is there anything else , your Highness ? ’ like we 're king and queen or summat . |
| 11 | Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter . |
| 12 | We have people sales people that are always discounting but er well when I say we the world has . |
| 13 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 14 | If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick . |
| 15 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 16 | And then when someone tells you the answer you kick yourself . ’ |
| 17 | He almost had me going , but my Rule of Life No. 14 is that when somebody offers you the chance of a lifetime , they usually mean theirs , not yours . |
| 18 | When you know what the job is and what sort of person you would like to employ your next step is to look in the ideal place for applicants of the right calibre . |
| 19 | When you put it the way you put it , I suppose I should have guessed that you had guessed . |
| 20 | You either know this or you do n't and when when you hear what the answer is you 're think , oh yes . |
| 21 | Were n't you , you were really quite horrified when you saw what the excavator |
| 22 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
| 23 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 24 | One , stating that ‘ the great task imposed on us in the struggle against Bolshevism resides in the annihilation of eternal Jewry ’ , went on : ‘ Only when you see what the Jew has brought about here in Russia , can you really understand why the Führer began the struggle against Jewry . |
| 25 | I 'm just one of the Star Councillors , but I was n't in the Star Room when you showed them the animal . |
| 26 | You have won the game when you guess who the quote was from . |
| 27 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 28 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 29 | When she raised them the rest of the way she held them not to her streaming eyes , but to her ears , listening intently for the sound of the sea . |
| 30 | Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street . |