Example sentences of "[verb] when he [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 2 | John was an only child whose mother had died when he was at the difficult and demanding age of toddlerhood . |
| 3 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 4 | And when Rodriguez did not answer him he said very quietly , ‘ Was it because of anything that happened when he was at the Escuela Mecánica de la Armada ? ’ |
| 5 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 6 | Osep brought up the piebald that Burun used for riding when he was with the clan , and Burun mounted . |
| 7 | At three , he lip-synched to Louis Armstrong , a fact which still gets him chewed and taunted when he 's on the Arsenio Hall show . |
| 8 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 9 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 10 | Where did he used to stay when he was up the glen ? |
| 11 | His career as a naturalist had begun when he was in the army at the end of the Napoleonic Wars ; serving in Malta and Sicily , he met Rafinesque ( later a founder of botany in the USA ) , who infected him with enthusiasm for natural history . |
| 12 | You know , he said just for the eh , erm , friendly he had when he was in the , in the Air Force , he was flying in and one of the properties in America was the big fat ladies they 'd pull the chain sitting on the loo and those loos there and it was |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His earlier successful damages claim arose when he was in the prison 's hospital wing convalescing after abdominal surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a result of the beating . |