Example sentences of "be the [noun] when he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 2 | Many were the times when he had his knuckles rapped sharply for meddling in politics or foreign policy . |
| 3 | Gone were the days when he smashed up hotels and pubs , dropped his trousers on an aeroplane and climbed up a pub chimney while the fire was still alight . |
| 4 | The time at which he must have it with him is the time when he stole etc. , if the burglary is the s.9(1) ( b ) type : O'Leary ( 1986 ) 82 Cr App R 341 ( CA ) . |
| 5 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 6 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
| 7 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 8 | Cadfael considered , when he came to think it out afterwards , that that was the moment when he became certain that Tutilo had not killed , had not ever imagined that his deceit was putting another soul in danger of death . |
| 9 | What was occupying his mind , as vividly as if it were even now taking place , was the moment when he had said , ‘ That is absolutely fascinating , Norman , ’ and then realized it was supposed to be the end of the programme . |
| 10 | In the dream this was the moment when he had acted . |
| 11 | Mr Getty bought Sutton Place in the 1960s , and this was the period when he most enjoyed acquiring pictures . |
| 12 | After Fisher died Ramsey said that the time in their lives when they were closest in friendship was the time when he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester . |
| 13 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 14 | Although there was the time when he was round about that age and had developed meningitis . |
| 15 | Then there was the time when he was arrested for driving a loaned car which the police insisted had been reported stolen . |