Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] when he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whit 's out , he 's phoning me when he gets back . |
| 2 | He too is a man who goes out of his way to twist people 's tails in the hope of provoking them when he thinks their inactivity is impermissible . |
| 3 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 4 | Roman did n't take kindly to any woman 's refusal , and he no doubt thought he was doing her an honour in wanting her when he thought she had belonged to Garry . |
| 5 | Except for the little meanness about Claudine , his nasty trick of kissing her when he knew that Marie would see them . |
| 6 | In Portugal , Sporting Lisbon gave Bobby Robson a glimpse of the task facing him when he takes over as manager in the summer by losing 1–0 at home to Guimaraes . |
| 7 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 8 | She signed the register , still having avoided meeting Ace 's eyes , just shutting them when he kissed her chastely on the cheek . |
| 9 | Hoomey thought back , and could not remember having them when he had run home through the rain . |
| 10 | ‘ Does he know I 'm going to be babysitting him when he gets to New York ? ’ |
| 11 | Harvey said no we did n't , and then the man in Riga said good-bye , and we said good-bye , so the man in Riga said it again and was still saying it when he melted . |
| 12 | She annoyed her father intensely by regularly wetting herself when he did not immediately attend to her . |
| 13 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 14 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
| 15 | But he would have a drink and a warm bed awaiting him when he got rid of it . |
| 16 | He was n't available , so we then covered ourselves by signing him before the January deadline with a view to playing him when he became available . ’ |
| 17 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |