Example sentences of "when he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 2 | He was arrested shortly after his arrival and was detained without trial until September when he was sentenced to ten years ' hard labour for alleged espionage . |
| 3 | The four-year investigation into former " junk-bond king " , Michael Milken ended in November 1990 when he was sentenced to 10 years in prison [ see p. 37848 ] . |
| 4 | His monastery was strongly affected by the evangelical movement in Seville in the 1550s , when he was converted to Protestantism , thereafter remaining a convinced Calvinist . |
| 5 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 6 | Our passage continues a description of Titus Groan 's childhood as heir to the phantasmagorical mansion of Gormenghast : [ 19 ] Who are the characters ? ( 1 ) And what has he [ Titus ] learned of them and of his home since that far day when he was born to the Countess of Groan in a room alive with birds ? ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | He continued working on his translation in Scotland until 1837 , when he was sent to Persia by the synod of the United Secession Church to complete his labours . |
| 8 | After the Restoration , pursuing his erstwhile reversion on Edmund 's behalf , he was pronounced unfit for a tellership , but he kept out of trouble until 1671 , when he was sent to the Tower on suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy of Colonel Thomas Blood [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 10 | A POLICEMAN beaten and stabbed to death when he was called to a disturbance died at the hands of a brutal generation with no concept of right or wrong , a close friend said at his funeral yesterday . |
| 11 | Nigel first started looking at bungee jumps in 1990 when he was asked to be an expert witness in an industrial tribunal concerning a bungee jump at a fairground . |
| 12 | On graduating he joined the Geological Survey in 1875 , working in the Teesdale and Cheviot districts until 1884 , when he was posted to the Survey 's Edinburgh office . |
| 13 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 14 | In 1939 he rejoined his regiment and served on the staff as a captain until 1944 , when he was transferred to the procurement and fine arts branch formed to protect historic buildings and works of art at risk during the invasion of the Continent . |
| 15 | Hobson had been associated with the UN Trust Territory since 1963 , and had served in Belau until 1977 when he was transferred to Saipan ( Northern Marianas ) . |
| 16 | Favour was first bestowed upon him by Mr Kinnock in l987 when he was appointed to the policy review group on democracy for the individual and the community convened by Roy Hattersley . |
| 17 | His career as a linguist in Britain dates from 1928 when he was appointed to the Department of Phonetics at the University of London . |
| 18 | ‘ ONE member , one vote , ’ demanded John Smith when he was elected to be Labour 's leader , wanting to end trade-union influence over the choice of Labour 's parliamentary candidates . |
| 19 | He entered the world of local government in 1968 , when he was elected to Cheshire County Council at the age of 25 . |
| 20 | Reg Butler sat beside a roaring gas log fire , smoking a fat cigar and wondering when he was going to be able to retire , relax , play golf , take in the odd West End show like other successful men of seventy-two . |
| 21 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 22 | Thus , in one case , a patient with inoperable cancer of the oesophagus was still in pain despite receiving 12 g of oral morphine a day when he was admitted to a hospice ; a week later he was free of pain when taking 60 mg of morphine a day and 10 mg of diazepam at night . |
| 23 | He was educated at Bristol Grammar School until 1732 , when he was admitted to St John 's College , Oxford , as a Bristol fellow . |
| 24 | Creevey was educated at Newcome 's School , Hackney , which favoured ‘ the sons of noblemen and gentlemen ’ , from c .1780 to 1787 , when he was admitted to Queens ' College , Cambridge , whence he graduated in 1789 as seventh wrangler . |
| 25 | Despite a piddling little incident in Aberdeen in 1989 when he was reported to the Procurator Fiscal for what the law delicately describes as ‘ a public nuisance offence ’ , Nicholas began to re-build his reputation at Aberdeen , a city whose heritage was built on fish and has the highest concentration of chip shops in Scotland . |
| 26 | In 1981 , when he was known to be seriously ill , Henry Fonda was voted Best Actor for On Golden Pond : his daughter and ( co-star ) Jane picked up the Oscar for him , and he died just five months later . |
| 27 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 28 | He was a detective sergeant from 1975 to 1982 when he was promoted to the rank of inspector . |
| 29 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |