Example sentences of "when he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India and Pakistan were hotly disputing ownership of the 1,500-mile Indus River in 1968 when he announced the UN-sponsored Indus Basin project to share water supplies for new power stations . |
| 2 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1907 , when he began the preparatory sketches for the Demoiselles , Picasso was already establishing his reputation as one of the most outstanding of the younger figures in contemporary French painting . |
| 4 | President Mitterrand of France attended Papeete 's celebrations of 100 years as a municipality on May 16 , 1990 , when he told the local assembly that he would help the colonies " to erase the legacy of an underlying colonial past " . |
| 5 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
| 6 | Boy George caused terrific confusion and ambiguous squaddie stiffies when he became the archetypal 1982 pop star — cross-dressing , camp , six foot tall and sexy . |
| 7 | The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours . |
| 8 | It is argued that the Lamont onslaught had all the hallmarks of an embittered man seeking revenge , particularly as he chose the day when he knew the Prime Minister would be on the defensive , and needing all the support he could summon . |
| 9 | A further application in geomorphology was developed by Caine ( 1976 ) when he estimated the physical work in joules represented by different types of sediment movement . |
| 10 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 11 | Perot was also damaged by his own political naïveté , as for example on July 12 when he addressed the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — his first major campaign appearance before a black audience — and offended many in the audience by the insensitivity of his remarks , which included references to " you people " . |
| 12 | Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation . |
| 13 | Sometimes it worked , sometimes they simply shouted abuse , but his greatest success was when he addressed the Welsh League of Youth Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth in Welsh , having studied the language for just six weeks . |
| 14 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 15 | Coun Jones had been visiting his mother-in-law at the hospital in October when he saw the Labour candidate among the crowd of protestors . |
| 16 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 17 | It was twenty past nine when he left the cosy fireside of the Bull . |
| 18 | It was Porterfield who brought the trophy back to Sunderland in 1973 when he scored the only goal of the game against Leeds . |
| 19 | Again he progressed very well , and it was therefore a terrible shock to all his colleagues when he suffered the fatal stroke . |
| 20 | The first major application of Blumlein 's principles was in 1939 , when he developed the visual display sound locator to help anti-aircraft gun-laying before radar was available . |
| 21 | By 1914 , when he appointed the aged I.L . |
| 22 | 10:5–7 ) He used similar words when he appointed the Seventy . |
| 23 | It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere . |
| 24 | In the Herdman case the taxpayer argued that s739 could not apply if the taxpayer was not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom when he made the relevant transfer . |
| 25 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 26 | He held this position until the fall of the Protectorate in 1659 , when he took the republican side . |
| 27 | The world 750 cc champion in 1978 , Cecetto burst onto the bike scene as a 19-year old in 1975 when he took the 350 cc crown . |
| 28 | On the Manx Nortons , and managed by the late Joe Craig , who came from Gracehill outside Ballymena , Geoff won his first North West race in 1950 when he took the 350 race at 82.54mph . |
| 29 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 30 | Appointments as sub-dean ( 1809 ) and treasurer ( 1813 ) suggest that he was early marked out for appointment as dean ; this came in 1824 , when he succeeded the handsome but incapable C. H. Hall [ q.v. ] , other candidates being Edmund Goodenough , headmaster of Westminster , and Charles LLoyd , another canon of Christ Church . |