Example sentences of "when [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I was a , it was when I was going to work , in was in the afternoon like . |
| 2 | His monastery was strongly affected by the evangelical movement in Seville in the 1550s , when he was converted to Protestantism , thereafter remaining a convinced Calvinist . |
| 3 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 4 | He continued working on his translation in Scotland until 1837 , when he was sent to Persia by the synod of the United Secession Church to complete his labours . |
| 5 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 6 | Hobson had been associated with the UN Trust Territory since 1963 , and had served in Belau until 1977 when he was transferred to Saipan ( Northern Marianas ) . |
| 7 | He entered the world of local government in 1968 , when he was elected to Cheshire County Council at the age of 25 . |
| 8 | Creevey was educated at Newcome 's School , Hackney , which favoured ‘ the sons of noblemen and gentlemen ’ , from c .1780 to 1787 , when he was admitted to Queens ' College , Cambridge , whence he graduated in 1789 as seventh wrangler . |
| 9 | He was educated at Bristol Grammar School until 1732 , when he was admitted to St John 's College , Oxford , as a Bristol fellow . |
| 10 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 11 | Melchet Forest in Wiltshire finally passed out of the hands of the Crown in 1614 , when it was leased to Sir Lawrence Hyde , and in the same year John Waller and Thomas Purcell received a grant of Pamber Forest in Hampshire , ‘ consisting of the soil only , the woods being sold away and the deer gone ’ . |
| 12 | The two sites at St-Aubin and Itteville , 40 km from Paris , held radioactive waste from 1948 until the 1970s when it was sent to La Hague , France 's nuclear waste treatment centre . |
| 13 | At Brent in Somerset a piece of land was defined in the late seventh century when it was granted to Glastonbury Abbey . |