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Example sentences for "him when"

  • He was an undecided, irresolute chap, who had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young.

  • Even then he wrote a few words for him on his card, with a promise to return to-morrow, and left it to be given to him when he should awake.

  • We shall get all the news from him when he comes.

  • I shan't know what to say to him when I come down," said Johnny.

  • It was manifest to him when he looked at himself in the glass hat he could keep neither of these engagements.

  • Twenty port won't come to him when he is as old as we are," said the earl, forgetting that by that time sixty port will be as wonderful to the then living seniors of the age as was his own pet vintage to him.

  • It was almost a relief to him when he found that he was not charged with his sin at once.

  • You'll know what to say to him when you're there.

  • I shudder to think of him when he comes, and discovers what I have been doing.

  • In the side traces he set the noble horse Pedasus, whom Achilles had brought away with him when he sacked the city of Eetion, and who, mortal steed though he was, could take his place along with those that were immortal.

  • It is more safe to trust to him when he commends than when he dispraises; when he enlarges the boundaries of criticism which his predecessors had contracted, than when he sets up new fences of his own.

  • How dare he write to you,' she burst out, 'of what I said to him when we took leave of each other?

  • Every evil motive which it was possible to attribute to a girl of her age, no matter how monstrously improbable it might be, occurred to him when he recalled her words, her look, and her manner at their meeting on the stairs.

  • But the best of the story is that he employed his mornings in composing a poem holding out to abhorrence the disgusting vice of drunkenness, and presented it to Joseph, requesting permission to dedicate it to him when published.

  • Don't you remember how the bunch of us laughed at him when he drifted in about dark, him and four burros--that one he called Boomerang, that he named his paper after in Laramie?

  • That evening after supper Honey Krause called to him when he was starting down to the bunk-house with the other men.

  • He walked off with the swing to his shoulders that had always betrayed him when he was angry, and Bob Birnie gathered his beard into a handful and held it while he stared after him.

  • I could scarcely gasp in his presence, my heart bounded so in awe and honor of him when he paid a visit to us; perhaps he used to bring the copy of the show-bills.

  • He will not expect Balzac to be always Balzac, and will be perhaps even more attracted to the study of him when he was trying to be Balzac than when he had become so.

  • What can I think of him when he will lie there and not say a word to save his daughter from the machinations of a filthy Jew?

  • A sweet savour of honesty hung about her breath, and was a blessing to him when he was near enough to her to feel it.

  • Tell your uncle that I was here, and say--say to him when no one else can hear, that I went away with a sad heart because I had not seen him.

  • If he had ever had any thought of marrying her, that thought was not consciously present to him when first he became aware of his wish to convert her to his views of life.

  • The memory of the event was brought back to him when on looking over autographs in the possession of Auguste Wolff, the successor of Camille Pleyel, he found a ticket for the above described concert.

  • My love to Johnnie, I will write to him when I am in better spirits.

  • Scarcely had she stepped up to him when he expressed the wish that she should let him hear once more the voice which he loved so much.

  • For the same brother, who with so much bravery had been saved by him when he fought valiantly in the cause of Corinth, he had now as nobly sacrificed for enslaving her afterward by a base and treacherous usurpation.

  • I 'm always afraid of him when he comes near.

  • The office-boy scowled at him when he pushed open the door and asked to see Mr. Bronson; nor could the head clerk, when summoned by this disreputable intruder, recognize him.

  • Yes--he took some bread and cheese with him when he heard what a long way it was.

  • Now--there was nothing on him when he was found dead in Middle Temple Lane.

  • He would have it on him when he was--as we believe he was--murdered and robbed?

  • She called back at him: "Tell me of him when we meet again.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eighteen; biographical notice; black mare; could just; her home; him for; him now; him out; him than; him when; him with; himself again; himself alone; himself and; himself had; himself hath; himself should; himself tells; himself the; himself was; mental comment; obtain the; round the mulberry bush; tablespoons cold; thinking that; well washed