Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 2 | The Spirit , then , is fully involved in the anguish of our world-in-the-making , and of us Christians-in-the-making ; and he points towards the day when the pains of travail will give way to the joys of birth . |
| 3 | He played in the days when the maximum wage was in force for professional soccer players and , unlike his modern counterparts , never grew rich on the game . |
| 4 | He arrived at a time when converging philosophical , political , scientific , and economic influences had inspired a number of English landowners to transform their estates into prosperous miniature centres for civilized living . |
| 5 | He gambled at a time when the Mob ran gaming , and he never expected to lose . |
| 6 | He thought of the days when he had a mother , and friends , and beautiful things in his life . |
| 7 | A pilot for Rolls Royce , he died at the weekend when the Spitfire he was flying crashed onto the runway during an air display in Lancashire . |
| 8 | He hesitated for a moment when he saw the girl sitting on one of the large black leather sofas that were ranged along one wall . |
| 9 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 10 | He did n't mind what Jack knew about him , within reason , that is , although he had ceased to confide in him as absolutely as he had in the days when they passed through Kingsmarkham Primary School together . |
| 11 | S 1(1) provides that ‘ a person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case . |