Example sentences of "when he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , when he was deported back to Russia for spying the CIA suggested Bailey as a possible replacement to take over as the Colonel 's number two . |
| 2 | Oh , you were n't like that years ago though were you , when he was stopping out at bloody four o'clock in the morning I come round Joy , I 've come round |
| 3 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 4 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 5 | MIDFIELDER Jamie Redknapp today received some compensation for Liverpool 's early exit from Europe when he was called up for England 's Under-21 international against Turkey at Brisbane Road on November 17 . |
| 6 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 7 | He got them when he was run over by his father 's new Grand Am . |
| 8 | The 41-year-old victim died instantly when he was run over by a Bedford van less than a mile from his home in Witney , Oxon . |
| 9 | A FATHER was seriously hurt when he was run down by joyriders — driving his car . |
| 10 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 11 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 12 | He was asked to leave Ferrari 's rather funereal office while a major argument took place ; when he was invited back in , he was told Reutemann would be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 13 | A man who nearly died when he was dragged along under a car for a quarter of a mile says he hopes to be leaving hospital soon . |
| 14 | 21 year old Patton , a villain two weeks ago when he was sent off at Portadown , returned from suspension to put this game beyond doubt within 16 minutes . |
| 15 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 16 | He took on a starring role in the Plough Lane Crazy Gang production and gained more notoriety when he was sent off for elbowing a village postman in a pre-season friendly on the Isle of Wight . |
| 17 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 18 | The heights of Best 's career are easily brought to mind the night he destroyed Benfica in the 1966 European Cup quarter-finals , the night in 1967 in Belfast when he was sent off after single-handedly dismantling a superior Scotland side , and of course the famous night in 1968 when he led Manchester United to a European Cup victory in extra time . |
| 19 | Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt . |
| 20 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 21 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 22 | AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station . |
| 23 | Quite how he was supposed to stand up for himself when he was tied up in a wicker laundry basket which had been left under a running shower was another matter . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 25 | He made an unfortunate slip when he was wheeled out for Thursday 's law and order policy launch — conceding that Labour could win . |
| 26 | DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game . |
| 27 | Mr Letts was on guard duty at this warehouse in the city … when he was knocked down by a pick up truck loaded with stolen scrap metal . |
| 28 | Schoolboy Andrew Bostick , of Leaholm Grove , Stockton , received cuts to his face and left leg when he was knocked down by a car in Fairfield Road , Stockton . |
| 29 | The cherry and whites have a lot stronger team out this time and the good news is that Marcus Hannaford who fractured his jaw when he was knocked out against the Saracens is back at scrum half . |
| 30 | When he was working out of London she would join him . |