Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll stop when I tell him . |
| 2 | I shall beam on him as I serve him lunch and if the old bastard is particularly unpleasant I 'll be able to reflect on how bad he 'll feel when he 's unmasked . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe he 'll change when he starts school next year . |
| 4 | He 'll go when he 's ready . |
| 5 | Having taken better care of it than Besty , or more accurately Besty 's hangers on , he invested some of it in a Sydney sports shop a few months ago , which he 'll run when he retires . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , David , really , that 's only because he knows perfectly well he 'll sell when we say how much . |
| 7 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 8 | He had feared he might choke when she stuffed chunks of it into his mouth and held him down , her hand sealing his lips , until he swallowed . |
| 9 | 1 Next time you admit a patient use the information you gain about his home circumstances and your knowledge about the operation he is to undergo to try and decide what care he might need when he leaves hospital . |
| 10 | On these , on the Leventhorpes and Rempstons and Erpynghams , he could lean when he would , and they would not let him fall . |
| 11 | Typically , now that he could leave when he pleased , he was tempted to remain longer and return to Paris in July . |
| 12 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 13 | ( Strangely , Gabriel never felt he could fly when he was wearing the harness . |
| 14 | Unlike his brother Clarence , he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age . |
| 15 | Unlike his brother Clarence , he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age . |
| 16 | She hoped he 'd stop when he reached the next supporting strut . |
| 17 | He 'd wake when they came . |
| 18 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 19 | He 'd die when he saw her nightdress ! |
| 20 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |
| 21 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 22 | Where did he used to stay when he was up the glen ? |
| 23 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 24 | Stephen had no clear idea , no idea at all really , as to what he would do when he and the man encountered each other . |
| 25 | She did not wait to see what he would do when he reached her . |
| 26 | ‘ Quite right , sir , ’ thinking lovingly of what he would do when he was promoted Inspector . |
| 27 | He would groan when he realised , afterwards , how he had raged at Maria Filippa . |
| 28 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 29 | In fact , Sir Adrian had no preconceived ideas about the sort of career he would follow when he came down from Cambridge with a degree in economics . |
| 30 | The whole tone of the recording was of a man who was alive in the sense that mattered , the sort of man Charles felt he would like when he met him . |