Example sentences of "when he took " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 2 | He also did what any American college president is expected to do — he raised money , leaving the college on a sounder footing , both financially and academically , than it had been when he took office . |
| 3 | No prizes for guessing who Ian Chapman , the publisher sacked by Rupert Murdoch when he took over William Collins , was referring to yesterday when he launched his new company . |
| 4 | Now in the care of a young Englishman , Jonathan Pease , at Chantilly , Golden Pheasant inflicted Nashwan 's only defeat when he took the Prix Niel over the Arc course and distance three weeks ago and , being lightly raced , he looks capable of improvement . |
| 5 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |
| 6 | These qualities were all evident when he took charge of the task of preparing the instructions for the drafting of the Prices and Incomes Acts of the mid-Sixties and he made a notable contribution to those formidably difficult exercises . |
| 7 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 8 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 9 | He was already fifty-five years old when he took up his first corporate post , as technical director of C.A. Parsons , manufacturers of electrical generators , transformers and turbines . |
| 10 | When he took over ICI Fibres it employed around twenty-seven thousand people in Europe . |
| 11 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 12 | When he took her hand in his , it was flabby , soft and tremulous . |
| 13 | • Clark Gable , on the other hand , caused vest sales to drop drastically when he took off his shirt in ‘ It Happened One Night ’ , to reveal a completely bare torso . |
| 14 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 15 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 16 | David Frost of South Africa took the sport 's richest prize when he took the $1 million winner 's cheque in the Sun City Challenge . |
| 17 | ARGENTINA 's new Finance Minister , Mr Antonio Erman Gonzalez , has quickly plunged into the free market economics President Carlos Menem promised when he took power in July . |
| 18 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |
| 19 | The composer 's father , Leopold , unwittingly started the rot over two centuries ago when he took the six-year-old Mozart to market , as it were , on the celebrated tour of Europe 's courts and palaces . |
| 20 | At the orders of Moussa Traoré , who was a lieutenant when he took over Mali 's government in 1968 , soldiers fired on rioting crowds . |
| 21 | Mathieu Kérékou was a colonel when he took power in 1972 in what was then Dahomey . |
| 22 | He searched through the free papers in the office when he took his article in , completing every possible coupon . |
| 23 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 24 | I do n't know where he is , I 'll smash his head in when we get home , taking care to use the rolling-pin , then I can tell the judge I was just rolling out the sausage plait when he took me unawares . |
| 25 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 26 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |
| 27 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
| 28 | From the moment that Brian McClair , the first player Mr Ferguson signed when he took over at Old Trafford , put United ahead after 14 minutes there appeared only one winner . |
| 29 | The Telegraph reported : ‘ It was this try , in fact , that put paid to England 's chances for when he took a bouncing ball in his stride and raced unopposed 60 yards to the line , England were in full attacking trim and had narrowed Wales 's lead from 13 points to four . |
| 30 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |