Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had one redeeming feature — his very good nature , except when he was in the boxing ring or after a few whiskies , when everyone gave him a wide berth . |
| 2 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 3 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |
| 6 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 7 | When I asked him a question he 'd say , ‘ The answer to that is — in fact the several answers to that are … |
| 8 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 9 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 10 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 11 | And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India . |
| 12 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Roger Davis fell in love with photography when his gave him a box camera nearly 50 years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ I really prefer the idea of an older man or even a bedridden man — even a person totally incapacitated — because at least when you bought him a watch you 'd know you 'd be wearing it in a week or two yourself . |
| 16 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass . |
| 20 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 21 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 22 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 23 | Rather to her disappointment , Giles replied , and when she gave him the news about Yvette she added cautiously , ‘ Mind you , she still has a little way to go yet , but I think she 'll be OK . ’ |
| 24 | Effortlessly , his knee slid to part her legs , but when she threw him a look of utter dismay he paused . |
| 25 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 26 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 27 | The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi . |
| 28 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 29 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 30 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |