Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] when [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : Fiona Pith-Helmet must have had her hard hat pulled over her ears and eyes leaving only her mouth operational when she accused the Arts Council of inverted racism ( 'What about the special needs of a struggling poet without funds ? ’ by Fiona Pitt-Kethley ; Living , 27 September ) . |
| 2 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 3 | As the new lord was only nineteen years old when he inherited the title , it is unlikely the event will again take place for many years . |
| 4 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 5 | She turned from her and ran down the stairs and into the yard , there to stand for a moment petrified when she saw the young fellow lying on his side , the blood oozing from somewhere above his ear . |
| 6 | Sadly , Beneficial is not even entered — an oversight made to look a touch embarrassing when he smashed the Chester course record earlier this month in the Dee Stakes . |
| 7 | He can make yet another significant contribution to a bank balance already worth $7 m when he defends the $2.7 m Johnnie Walker World Championship in Jamaica this week . |
| 8 | Johnstone shot to fame as a 16 year old when he scored the winning goal for Rangers in the 1970 Cup Final against Celtic and was voted the Scottish Player of the Year in 1978 , the year of the abortive World Cup campaign in Argentina . |
| 9 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |
| 10 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
| 11 | However , President Gorbachev had requested $10,200 million when he met the EC Commissioner for Economic Affairs , Henning Christophersen , on Oct. 1 . |