Example sentences of "his [noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trouser was torn , and there was blood on his fingers when he rubbed the wound , and he wiped it away on his handkerchief . |
| 2 | AROUND GOLF by Trevor Peake HESWALL 'S Dave Cottrell let the prestigious Tillman Trophy slip through his fingers when he shot an 82 in the final round of the 72 hole open scratch event at Royal Liverpool last weekend . |
| 3 | Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself . |
| 4 | Miss Rocco said Prince Philip was incapable of helping his sons when their marriages broke down because of his own austere upbringing . |
| 5 | He was both courageous and physically attractive , but deranged , and it was a great relief even to his associates when he left Scotland to die a pauper in Naples . |
| 6 | One day not long before Christmas Paddington was busy doing his accounts when he heard Mrs Bird singing which was most unusual . |
| 7 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 8 | Paddy Kennedy , an RLP councillor who was himself taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs , said that he had seen Fitt fall to the ground and he had appeared to be on his knees when he was struck by a baton . |
| 9 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom always had a couple of lurcher dogs tagging along at his heels when he was a kid . |
| 11 | He may even need to use a blanket over his legs when he is sitting in his chair . |
| 12 | Experimental surgery on his legs when he was 10 left him in a wheelchair , yet in 1988 he climbed Kala Patar in the Himalayas over 18,000 feet in the shade of Everest . |
| 13 | However experimental surgery on his legs when he was ten left him in a wheelchair . |
| 14 | He sometimes kicks his legs when he does n't know what I 'm doing . |
| 15 | Coach driver Peter Wright lost both his legs when his bus crashed into a bridge upright on the M40 at Tetsworth last November . |
| 16 | Go for his legs when you can |
| 17 | David said to his brothers when they challenged his right and ability to fight Goliath : ‘ Is there not a just cause ? ’ |
| 18 | Tears burst from his eyes when we were leaving South American soil and stepping aboard the cargo ship that would deliver us in Panama . |
| 19 | There were tears in his eyes when he crouched to gather up the debris , scooping it into a pile with both hands while Sweetheart roared with laughter . |
| 20 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
| 21 | It was just something in his eyes when he smiled and his voice when he talked to a woman . |
| 22 | There were tears of frustration in his eyes when he was back in his office and scrawling his letter of regrets in longhand to his former tutor . |
| 23 | Iain Macleod had tears in his eyes when he came up to congratulate Mollie . |
| 24 | She heard it in his voice when he spoke to her , saw it in his eyes when he was thinking , felt it in his great muscular body every time she lay in his arms at night . |
| 25 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
| 26 | She was toying with the sand , scooping it up and letting it trail through her fingers , and she did n't see the expression in his eyes when he next spoke . |
| 27 | There was a distinct love light in his eyes when he looked at Jenny . |
| 28 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 29 | A smile tugged at his lips when he remembered the dead peonies falling at his feet and Sweetheart 's totally unexpected laughter . |
| 30 | And this chap in pen , and it showed them drawing on his lips when he was anaesthetized where you |