Example sentences of "when he [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 2 | A graduate chartered librarian with a full teaching qualification and working in schools is a teacher when he is engaged with a class , and mostly a librarian when he is devising an alphabetical subject index , and so on . |
| 3 | It was Richard Norman Shaw who first conceived the idea when he was remodelling a Northumbrian house called ‘ Chesters ’ . |
| 4 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |
| 5 | A storm erupted when he was payed a reputed £2,250,000 for what amounted to a cameo appearance in Superman the Movie in 1979 . |
| 6 | The news of the imminent announcement broke when he was enjoying a private buffet lunch given by Anglesey Borough Council after completing three engagements . |
| 7 | That it was the wrong remedy was discovered later when he was given a higher potency which helped the eczema but made the asthma worse . |
| 8 | The climax of Delaunay 's success in Germany came when he was given a large one-man show at the Walden Gallery in Berlin early in 1913 ; both Delaunay and Apollinaire travelled to Germany for the opening . |
| 9 | After 54 England Caps , Sir Stanley earned another cap when he was given an honorary doctorate by Keele University . |
| 10 | Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices . |
| 11 | All of this was fully recognized when he was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Glasgow in 1892 . |