Example sentences of "[noun sg] when he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 2 | Larkin 's humiliating defeat did not prevent his becoming president of the Irish Trades Union Congress , and he had their blessing when he left for the United States in October 1914 , hoping to retrieve his union 's fortunes . |
| 3 | That was certainly the impression he gave to Taheb 's gatekeeper , a squat man with one wall-eye , who appraised him pessimistically with the other when he asked for the mistress of the house . |
| 4 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 5 | And the gesture is Raskolnikov 's too , for example when he feels for the axe slung inside his overcoat . |
| 6 | Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks . |
| 7 | South African President F W de Klerk ducked out of the row when he arrived for a three-day visit to Britain . |
| 8 | A CHEF who cancelled the final stage of a £20,000 sex-change operation when he fell for a pretty blonde announced yesterday : ‘ She 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 9 | I hope that a message will go out from my hon. and learned Friend the Minister when he replies for the Government . |
| 10 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |