Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a certain speculation in her glance now when she looked at him ; she listened when he advised her on her investment portfolio , and — increasingly — she took his advice . |
| 2 | And it had been easy to ignore them , not to listen , to walk away , when he believed them to be just dirt . |
| 3 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 4 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 5 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 6 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 7 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 8 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 9 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 10 | His foreboding quickly turned to enthusiastic support when he saw her in action . |
| 11 | Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway . |
| 12 | He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture . |
| 13 | Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design . |
| 14 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 15 | They belong to the work which he disowned and attempted to destroy when he relaunched himself with ‘ Three Studies for Figures at the base of a Crucifixion ’ ( 1944 ) , the triptych which opens all conventional accounts of Bacon 's art . |
| 16 | Nor is the subject referred to again until nearly two years later , when he surprised everyone by suddenly disclosing what he had heard at the Council and proposed to carry out fully in future . |
| 17 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 18 | When he sold him to Villa for £450,000 in 1988 , Ferguson made no secret of the fact that he was delighted to see him go . |
| 19 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 20 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 21 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 22 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 23 | you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ? |
| 24 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 25 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 26 | And had she not felt elated when he praised her in that soft , beguiling voice ? |
| 27 | Charlie , is on his last legs , has been for years and , might as well have him put down , as that Nick keep saying , I think I 'll have to have him put down he , when he takes him for a walk he collapses . |
| 28 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 29 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 30 | Father hated to be disturbed when he had anybody with him and I could see he was annoyed so I made myself scarce ; I mean I did n't stay to say what I wanted . ’ |