Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 11 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 15 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 18 | When they gave him the MBE ( some said it should have been the Croix de Guerre ) for services to the Party , the club committee charged 10p a pint all day . |
| 19 | ‘ Kristian is very good with fans when they see him the street and ask him for autographs . |
| 20 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |