Example sentences of "[to-vb] when he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember her coming to see me and begging me to help when he was arrested . |
| 2 | He was about to leave when he was spotted by Franco who called out to him . |
| 3 | Although the most successful county in the District in demonstrating the effectiveness of a resident tutor through the considerable talents of Harold Shearman who had provided the building blocks for co-operative endeavour between the Cambridge Board and the WEA during the early thirties , the position began to change when he was succeeded by Harold Plaskitt as the university 's resident tutor in 1936 . |
| 4 | He wrote to Law to protest when he was offered only an under secretaryship. pointing out that he had only accepted the Chairmanship because of the offer of a cabinet post . |
| 5 | The Poitevin barons must have felt the way Henry Morgan 's old associates were to feel when he was appointed Governor of Jamaica with orders to stamp out piracy . |