Example sentences of "when he [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gauntletts left a house , the Groves a school and , attacked by a critic for writing patriotic verse when he was neither a soldier nor sailor himself , Sir Henry Newbolt left these lines : |
| 2 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 3 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 4 | Apparently his mum died when he was just a kid and his dad was a confidence trickster . |
| 5 | After I took him over to Aldina Simmonds when he was just a tot , Turpie and Leon never met . |
| 6 | Her reactions had been childish , the behaviour of a spoiled brat , but he had a cheek to point it out when he was only an employee of her father 's . |
| 7 | Gregory 's father died when he was still a boy , and he was brought up first by his great-uncle , Nicetius , then a priest in Chalon-sur- Saône , but later bishop of Lyons , and afterwards by Avitus , archdeacon of Clermont , where his uncle Gallus was bishop . |
| 8 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 9 | Peter , born into a working-class family in Edinburgh , had barely known his mother , who died when he was still a baby . |
| 10 | And erm she was saying that when he was there a bloke come round start giving them a little verbal . |