Example sentences of "[noun] when [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colonial government entered the field of the press soon after the German defeat when in 1923 it introduced Mambo Leo ( ‘ Affairs of Today ’ ) . |
| 2 | A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies . |
| 3 | Clearly this is what Andrea 's nephew Giovanni ( C. 1555–1612 ) had in mind when in 1587 he published a collection of motets , Mass-movements , and madrigals by his uncle and himself as Concerti ( a very early use of the term ) per voci , & stromenti Musicali ; a 6.7.8.10.12. & 16 . |
| 4 | ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson . |
| 5 | The intended beneficiary of this dynastic coup was Osred ( II ) , the son of King Alhred by Osgifu , Aelfwald 's sister , a youth of no more than 19 at the time , who reigned for a year but then fell a victim to further shifts of allegiance when in 789 he was taken prisoner , deprived of his kingdom , tonsured at York and expelled , and Aethelred , son of Aethelwald , resumed royal power ( ASC D , s.a. 788 , 789 ) . |
| 6 | They almost missed the man when at last he came . |
| 7 | This belief is firmly backed up by the experience of the West German government when in 1965 it attempted to bring criminal charges against nine Chemie Grunenthal executives who were indicted for causing bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug thalidomide . |
| 8 | Dora accepted these ministrations without protest , but Melissa thought she detected a growing restiveness and a thinly veiled relief when at last they said goodnight and returned to their own room . |
| 9 | She could have cried with relief when at last she passed the war memorial with the crucifix and realised the next track led to the farm . |
| 10 | It was a relief when at last I saw someone I knew . |
| 11 | Despite this bitter tragedy the town again rallied itself to the Yorkist cause when in 1470 they assisted King Edward IV in dispelling a Lancastrian uprising at the battle of Loosecoat Field . |
| 12 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 13 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 14 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 15 | And how can he know that p when for all he knows he does n't ? |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , ’ said John when at last it was all over , and the final notes had faded away . |