Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] when his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a hot afternoon and the first one for ages when his time had been his own until bedtime . |
| 2 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |
| 3 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 4 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 5 | According to Hesiod , in the ‘ good old days ’ before the lordship of Zeus when his father Kronos was king , there was a Golden Age . |
| 6 | The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment . |
| 7 | Thomas of Woodstock , Edward 's youngest son , was born in 1355 and was thus barely of age when his father died . |
| 8 | Further downstream at the car park swim Bert Watson ( Sadberge ) finished one fish short of victory when his seven brownie float-fished maggot haul grossed 4.1.0 at the scales . |
| 9 | He gave a roar of rage when his mother pulled him back , saying : ‘ Now behave yourself , Junior , or this is the last time I 'll bring you into the supermarket . |
| 10 | He has always regarded the break-up as good fortune and at last found some degree of stability when his mother remarried six years later . |
| 11 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 12 | Mr O'Shaughnessy , who was given custody of Ryan when his marriage ended 10 years ago , said : ‘ My sister and grand-daughter are buried there . |
| 13 | A natural Tory , he abhorred the postwar Labour government and in 1947 , after a surprise windfall of £15,000 when his children 's book , Mistress Masham 's Repose ( 1947 ) , was chosen as the book of the month in the USA , exiled himself in the Channel Islands . |
| 14 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |
| 15 | To this end , he had not even considered packing anything that could remotely be considered seaside wear , and as a result suppressed a pang of envy when his cab turned along the Victoria Parade and his eyes beheld a scene that reminded him irresistibly of his annual holiday at Margate , fortunately yet to come . |
| 16 | He recently ate a piece of cheese when his hands had just touched his shoes — and I later found out he had stood in some dog dirt . |
| 17 | She told the court that she had known eighteen-year-old Beno for three years , that in 1941 he had lost his power of speech when his lodgings suffered a direct hit , and that thereafter he had lived with the fantasy of becoming an air force officer . |
| 18 | He was booked for a wild foul on Carl Bradshaw , so there was an element of justice when his clearance found Rostron and the Owl-in-exile advanced to equalise with a cross-shot that may have been more cross than shot . |
| 19 | Born in 1129 , he inherited large territories and an equally large collection of feuds when his father was poisoned in 1139 . |
| 20 | Hunt was in his first season with McLaren when his talent influenced them to sign him as leader , after his former team , Hesketh , folded at the end of 1975 . |
| 21 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 22 | Antoine De Caunes goes film-funning in NOW AVAILABLE IN CANNES and there 's fun with Schoenberg when his sexy 1ST STRING QUARTET IN D MINOR goes clang bonk spling on C4 at 12.10am . |
| 23 | He hated to be thwarted and went white with rage when his car would n't start . |
| 24 | She had n't resented his withdrawal into music when his music had won world acclaim . |
| 25 | Mrs Allen was with Laura when his mother discovered her husband dead in their bed last week . |
| 26 | ‘ I would imagine alcohol started to become a problem for Len when his wife left him about three years ago , ’ Martin began . |
| 27 | An inn-keeper like H. Goble of Petworth was worth £561 when his will was proved in 1670 ; the local glover , N. Warner , died in 1645 worth £1539 , most of which was held in mortgages on other men 's property . |
| 28 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |
| 29 | But Moloney 's mount was soon back in command when his rival made a nonsense of the second last jump , from where Whaat Fettle went on to record a splendid 10-length win . |
| 30 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |