Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 4 | ‘ Keith is a lovable character and I knew about his work , lifestyle and temper when I married him . ’ |
| 5 | Of course I did n't think it would be Terry when I married him . |
| 6 | Oh , he , he always starts to whinge when I lay him down to do his coat up , he do n't like |
| 7 | When I thanked him he said , ‘ Please come again . |
| 8 | He filched them from my wardrobe when I kicked him out . |
| 9 | I ask did I have my eyes shut when I kicked him , er |
| 10 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 11 | When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow . |
| 12 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 13 | When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there . |
| 14 | When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there . |
| 15 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 16 | And when I discovered he was going to be a priest . |
| 17 | When I challenged him to do so he was right in fourteen cases out of the sixteen . |
| 18 | ‘ When I knew him , ’ writes Khrushchev , ‘ he was bursting with an impatient desire to rule the world . |
| 19 | I was told stories about him and I know that he was pretty much a hellraiser , but when I knew him he was just a really nice guy . |
| 20 | It 's just that Hubert was always such a fool when I knew him , and I hoped he might have acquired a little common sense in the meantime . |
| 21 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
| 22 | ‘ Fancy falling in love with the same man twice — when I knew he could never be interested in me ! ’ |
| 23 | Oh , do n't worry , ’ she added , catching sight of her father 's expression , ‘ I 'm not defending him — far from it — I was as angry as you when I knew he was back . ’ |
| 24 | I really thought we 'd blown it when I saw him cracking up . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’ |
| 26 | When I saw him stood upright before me , I could not be sure to what extent he was hunched over due to infirmity and what extent due to the habit of accommodating the steeply sloped ceilings of the room . |
| 27 | I went to Southport and was waiting at the hotel for Lee when I saw him roll up . |
| 28 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 29 | When I saw him I was laughing , because it was n't even twenty feet . ’ |
| 30 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |