Example sentences of "when he was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four-year investigation into former " junk-bond king " , Michael Milken ended in November 1990 when he was sentenced to 10 years in prison [ see p. 37848 ] . |
| 2 | He was arrested shortly after his arrival and was detained without trial until September when he was sentenced to ten years ' hard labour for alleged espionage . |
| 3 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 4 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 5 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |
| 6 | In September 1990 Mr. Kissane was arrested and charged with fraud arising out of activities when he was employed by Royal . |
| 7 | In September 1990 Mr. Kissane was arrested and charged with fraud arising out of activities when he was employed by Royal . |
| 8 | Tony suffered severe brain damage in April 1989 when he was crushed with dozens of other Liverpool fans in the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield . |
| 9 | Classmates joined huge crowds when he was buried with full military honours after a service St Chad 's Church , Kirkby . |
| 10 | That was when he was buried in that lime at |
| 11 | He could tell that from his pulse-beat , which was only fifty-four when he was lying like this , on the bed , and from the hardness of his biceps when he bent his arm . |
| 12 | He continued to suffer from periodic chest infections throughout his early manhood ; but the earliest symptoms of his terminal illness appeared in 1784 , when he was attacked by violent colic , vomiting , and rheumatic fever , resulting from a virus caught during an epidemic . |
| 13 | The following year Robinson founded the Garden and edited it until 1899 , when he was succeeded for two years by Gertrude Jekyll [ q.v. ] , his lifelong friend . |
| 14 | He held the office until Safar 924/February 1518 when he was succeeded by two Damascene scholars in turn , who between them held the post until 927/1521 ; then by two Ottomans , in turn , until 930/1524 ; and then again by one of the Damascenes who had earlier held the post , this time holding it from 930/1524 to 936/1530 when he was removed , apparently for misconduct . |
| 15 | For some men promotion was eagerly desired , but even a promotion in rank could be distinctly harmful , as John Main discovered when he was drawn into another political conflict in 1752 . |