Example sentences of "that when he [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was met by Kjell-Arne , his kennel boy , who told him that when he was eating his lunch he heard the noise of a dog scratching against the door . |
| 2 | ( When alone in Tom 's attic recently , found his passport and discovered that when he was born I was already at Grammar School , doing Domestic Science — in vain , as it turned out ) . |
| 3 | All Christians today believe Jesus is the Son of God , and that when he was conducting his ministry on earth , even though he was fully human , he was also divine . |
| 4 | It helped enormously that he also happened to enjoy affairs with women , and that when he was acting on stage , his sexual proclivities were not such a problem as he was less in the public eye . |
| 5 | Robert Burns called John Tennant , ‘ a worthy , intelligent farmer , my father 's friend and my own ’ and his regard is borne out by the fact that when he was offered tenancy of Ellisland Farm , Dumfries , it was to John Tennant he turned for advice ; they travelled together to the farm and after an inspection , the older man recommended it to his young friend . |
| 6 | He claims , for instance , that when he was researching Whigs and Hunters , ‘ on several occasions , while I was actually watching , the lonely hour of the last instance actually came ’ ( Thompson , 1979 : 299 ) . |
| 7 | The red-faced major had a good memory for faces and well recalled that when he was lecturing to the officers of the Scots Guards at Pirbright in 1939 , a certain young gentleman had persistently slept through his talks , having spent the previous nights at wild parties in London . |
| 8 | He was so respected by his natural enemies , the Moors , that when he was exiled by his Christian overlords , they were more than willing to give him shelter and employment . |
| 9 | Philip was so tightly wedged that when he was pulled out he left his pyjamas behind and emerged stark naked , although not seriously harmed . |
| 10 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |
| 11 | And he would tell them that when he was going back to get gon na be his next meal . |
| 12 | There was no reason for it , except that when he was talking to Jimmy Williams he regularly felt that Jimmy required his interlocutors to act a part . |
| 13 | Can I just confirm with Mr Curtis that when he was talking about the thirty three hectares , he was talking about thirty three hectares in terms of in terms of a change of use |
| 14 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |