Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 2 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 3 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 4 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 5 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 6 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
| 7 | When you offer a piece of information , you do n't commit yourself in quite the same way that you do when you propose or suggest an idea . |
| 8 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |