Example sentences of "when [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has lost one brother already , ’ he said sombrely , ‘ of the two that she doted on , when Roger was killed in Ireland , four years ago . |
| 2 | When Tikhon was placed under house arrest in June 1922 , one of these movements , the Living Church , was given numerous concessions by the regime , and at first looked set to take over the role and some of the property of the Orthodox . |
| 3 | And when Stewart was missed at Patel at square leg , pulling the unfortunate Su'a ( who handled his short-straw role of bowling into the wind with aplomb ) , a massive score seemed likely . |
| 4 | Law was very angry when Churchill was put in office by Lloyd George in 1917 , and the National Union resolved that it was " an insult to the Army and Navy and an injury to the Country " . |
| 5 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 6 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |
| 7 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 8 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 9 | The Countess Marie 's denial of the existence of love in marriage is " dated " to May 1174 — the one date in the whole book when Eleanor was held in Chinon Castle , her husband 's prisoner . |
| 10 | When Hellen was transferred to Toronto to continue her documentary film-making career , I found that I missed her cheery presence more than I had expected , despite many activities . |
| 11 | Joanna went to live with Five Bellies in a Rome apartment when Gazza was bought by Lazio . |
| 12 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 13 | So I think that when Darwin was writing about psychology , he became a Lamarckian , in just about every sense of the word , because will is related to things that people do and think . |
| 14 | But this was shelved when Oslear was deposed as chairman . |
| 15 | Since the reign of Henry VII , the French King had paid a substantial sum to England , which was increased to 150,000 francs per annum when Tournai was returned to France in 1519 . |
| 16 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 17 | When Eva was appointed to Scotland one of the top leaders informed him " You 'll be teaching a future General of the Salvation Army how to run a British Territory . " |
| 18 | Moreover , it must be of considerable significance that when Eadwine was slain in Hatfield the sons of Aethelfrith were nearby to take advantage of the situation . |
| 19 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
| 20 | It all began when Wade was swimming with dolphins , imitating their movement in an undulation that began at the head and rippled along his body to his fins . |
| 21 | Sidney Lee states that when Lambarde was presented to Queen Elizabeth I she complained to him that Shakespeare 's Richard II was played forty times earlier that year with seditious intent in streets and houses and she viewed it with suspicion . |
| 22 | Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king , behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem , saying , ‘ Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? |
| 23 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 24 | When McCormack was traced by police , he said that he had been drinking and ‘ carrying on ’ with the shopping trolleys . |
| 25 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 26 | And later , when Bobbie was sitting with Mother , the other two were busy with a white sheet , some black paint and a paint brush . |
| 27 | His refusal of a penalty when Allen was fouled by Curle made matters worse , but he was correct in ruling that Brady had already fouled Segers . |
| 28 | During the European witch hunts , thousands of women were tortured and murdered when woman-as-Eve was transformed into woman-as-witch . |
| 29 | When Cawthorne was mentioned by name she put her forefinger and thumb together in a circle and made the universal sign for self-abuse . |
| 30 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |