Example sentences of "when he [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where did he used to stay when he was up the glen ? |
| 2 | His father died when he was aged three , and the family , then living in Manchester , returned to the home of their maternal grandmother in Scotland . |
| 3 | When he was aged eleven , doctors gave him ten years to live . |
| 4 | If you will not come to us I am resolved to bring Oreste to you by and by so you may see how he progresses which I hope will be as well as when he was under your care . |
| 5 | He always began to stammer when he was under pressure and immediately became conscious of his cleft palate . |
| 6 | She visited him when he was under sentence of death at Wandsworth and he wrote one of his last and most affectionate letters to her . |
| 7 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 8 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 9 | She made a point of ensuring that others did not disturb him when he was at his books , even though it was not always a rule that she was able to keep herself . |
| 10 | His next move , also as sous chef , was to Chez Nico to work for Nico Ladenis when he was at Shinfield , Berkshire . |
| 11 | When he was at a safe distance , he turned and cal led . |
| 12 | When he was at Cardiff College of PE he used to get Gareth Edwards to play . |
| 13 | When he was at Cardiff College of PE he used to get Gareth Edwards to play . |
| 14 | She did n't come , which was surprising ; she was a docile creature and particularly devoted to him because he always took her for a walk when he was at the stables . |
| 15 | She was a little girl who lived across from Ali 's old Louisville home when he was at the top . |
| 16 | He had been quite good at drawing when he was at school . |
| 17 | When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh . |
| 18 | By the 1860's , when he was at the height of his fame , tragedy struck as he took increasingly to drink . |
| 19 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 20 | John was an only child whose mother had died when he was at the difficult and demanding age of toddlerhood . |
| 21 | Carlton 's sales director Martin Bowley employed the agency when he was at Television South West , and his deputy , marketing and commercial controller for Carlton , Simon Cade , is a former LH-S employee . |
| 22 | When he was at his most extended , his bank , a subsidiary of a larger group headed by Crédit Suisse , one of the de Chavigny company 's Swiss bankers , suddenly called in his loans . |
| 23 | Only when he was at last on his way , did he realise that he wanted a woman . |
| 24 | ‘ He , too , had suffered under Miss Angus 's overbearing rule when he was at school , and he did not mind trying to make her look foolish . |
| 25 | The twentieth century has its own Christian martyrs : St Maximilian Kolbe , who exchanged places with a condemned Jew in the concentration camp and was starved along with his fellow prisoners , before being fatally injected with carbolic acid ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a minister of the Confessing Church of Germany , who was executed by the Nazis ; and Archbishop Romero , gunned down when he was at a prayer meeting . |
| 26 | CHESHIRE housewife Tamara Kennerley , a girlfriend of Clinton when he was at Oxford , was among the first to offer her congratulations . |
| 27 | In his book ‘ More than a Match : A Player 's Story ’ ( Stanley Paul Pounds 14.99 ) , published yesterday , Leeds striker Chapman , who viewed Clough at close quarters when he was at the City Ground , examines the alternatives . |
| 28 | ‘ He always worked very hard on the training pitch when he was at Tottenham , but he did n't always have that bit of luck a keeper sometimes needs . |
| 29 | A nurse who had cared devotedly for Nigel when he was at home agreed to ice it for me . |
| 30 | He told me , some time after we were married , that when he was at school he used to show round a photograph one of his mother 's lovers had taken of part of Versailles , and say it was his grandfather 's rectory in Ireland . |