Example sentences of "when he was [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found the wording offensive enough , but when he was later informed that the composition was that of a witch his anger boiled over . |
| 2 | And when he was nearly killed when he crashed his car on a motorway he had a Brahms symphony on his radio , which he now uses as his theme tune . |
| 3 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 4 | When he was not writing or smoking , Bob noticed , he sat absolutely still , so still that the ribbon of smoke from his cigarette hung almost undisturbed for two or three feet above his hand . |
| 5 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 6 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 7 | because because that is how I felt when he was actually saying that to me |
| 8 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |