Example sentences of "when his [adj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his entire body was covered apart from his head , Herve picked up a folding entrenching tool which he swung into Vadgama 's face , splitting his nose and smearing it over his face . |
| 2 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 3 | But in France and England , by the early twelfth century , it was generally expected that the vassal would pay an ‘ aid ’ when the lord was captured in war and had to be ransomed , when his eldest son was knighted , and when his eldest daughter was married . |
| 4 | But in France and England , by the early twelfth century , it was generally expected that the vassal would pay an ‘ aid ’ when the lord was captured in war and had to be ransomed , when his eldest son was knighted , and when his eldest daughter was married . |
| 5 | He winced when his wounded arm was touched . |
| 6 | Was it when his first book was published ? ’ |
| 7 | Hull had the better of the first half struggle with Russ Wilcox their outstanding player , unlucky when his powerful header was tipped over the top . |
| 8 | IAN McMILLAN entered medicine when his chosen speciality was developing rapidly , following wartime and post-war advances in anaesthesiology , diagnostic cardiology and other technologies . |
| 9 | ONE OF the last of a now all but extinct breed , Johnny Martin bowled unorthodox slow left-arm in eight Tests for Australia during the 1960s , and was , when his aggressive batting was taken into account , as great an entertainment package as almost any cricketer to come out of NSW . |
| 10 | The man , in his 20s , clung to an overhanging tree when his damaged craft was in danger of carrying him to his death over a raging weir . |
| 11 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 12 | In our day and age , can you think of someone who has been so full of the Spirit that he 's had the courage to preach even when his own life was at stake ? |
| 13 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 14 | Once , that was after Maman had gone , and when his own mother was distant , she had compelled him to eat a whole snail , slashing his legs with a nettle till he obeyed , and the stinging of the nettle really enlivened his dancing . |
| 15 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
| 16 | Early on Dowman almost put through his own goal when his flicked header was just wide of the post . |
| 17 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 18 | Only when his third child was born severely handicapped did his potency fail . |
| 19 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 20 | When his public voice was silenced through imprisonment , Jesus established the continuity of his ministry with that of John . |
| 21 | Wycliffe had no idea how frightening he could be when his whole personality was concentrated on an interrogation . |