Example sentences of "when he [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he left 24 years later , his majority was more than 14,000 . |
| 2 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |
| 3 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 4 | When he died ten years later , she came to Beirut and found us . ’ |
| 5 | His name was associated with sports cars for 20 years , and when he died last year his son became head of the family and a director of the new Healey Company . |
| 6 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 7 | Anyway , I 'd already had one moment of glory with Peter when he won two years before in the 1958 British Open . |
| 8 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |