Example sentences of "when he [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 2 | When he was out of sight I pushed the curtains aside and ran downstairs . |
| 3 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |
| 4 | Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either . |
| 5 | Harry also remembers that when he was a journeyman at Stanstead Park , the liquid was used to deter red spider mite from violet cuttings planted out in cool spots in the grounds . |
| 6 | When he was asked to do a stall , he became panic-stricken as the glider stalled , and it was obviously unsafe to allow him to go solo . |
| 7 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |
| 8 | In the late 1970s another insider academic experienced this autocratic preference for silence when he was served a notice under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 9 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 10 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 11 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 12 | He does remember , puckishly , an incident when he was about three years of age . |
| 13 | Leonard 's mind was such that he always had several ironies in his fire at any one time , even when he was seeking to demythologise some of them ! |
| 14 | Abe Moses , who was also a poet when he was not gutting fish , died while the children were st ill young , and Miriam Leah , who stunk of fish , decided to go into something more glamorous . |
| 15 | Later when he was hungry , he ate three of them in a row , washed down with bottles of beer which he said he did n't much care for . |
| 16 | Kevin Inkster discarded the loose chain when he was dissatisfied with the cut it gave , but it made him realise that he was certainly on the right lines . |
| 17 | Ashton demonstrated Harlequin 's technical expertise when he was transformed into Colas , a farmer , dancing with his shepherd 's crook . |
| 18 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 19 | She collected Ben from his breeders when he was eight weeks old , having paid £175 . |
| 20 | ‘ He explained everything to us and was always available when he was needed . |
| 21 | At home he has chewed the door frame and part of the back door , as well as the kitchen cupboards , although these were done when he was a lot younger . |
| 22 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 23 | In Pound , on the other hand … are we to believe that he , the long-time admirer of Pisanello , when he was in Syracuse never visited the unrivalled collection of ancient coins in the museum there ? |
| 24 | Pound was a serious man , and never more serious than when he was writing poetry ; and his poetry drives towards just those unpalatable conclusions that Olson forces us to look in the face . |
| 25 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 26 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 27 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 28 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 29 | When he was not bowling , his cat-like fielding at midwicket kept an appreciative crowd happy . |
| 30 | When he was half-way over , the Czechoslovak police guarding the back of the embassy grabbed the man 's belt and began hauling him down . |