Example sentences of "when he [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he took heroin for the first time when he was on the rebound from a broken relationship . |
| 2 | day when he was with the lady , and before that , asking if … if I 'd like to see the fair on the green . ’ |
| 3 | He 's Kingsley Poole , who 's been with the club since 1988 when he was with the development squad . |
| 4 | In North 's briefing on the contras , given widely to donors and politicians when he was at the NSC , the emphasis was striking . |
| 5 | As she moved slowly however it became apparent that her tall , slender stance was one of self-defence , not defiance , and she had not taken more than two steps when he was across the room hovering over her . |
| 6 | It was only when he was near the crest that he became aware of the sound of crying . |
| 7 | Perhaps he remembered the meeting about Iran in August 1985 when he was in the hospital , or the decision to assist the shipment in November , taken ‘ in the bedroom of the little guest house ’ in Geneva ? |
| 8 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 9 | Every night when he was in The Bar , Boy wore his black shoes . |
| 10 | The idea that carried me away was like the invisible seeds that Thoreau wrote about when he was in the swamp . |
| 11 | He was succeeded by F. W. Anderson who acted as palaeontologist in Edinburgh until 1953 except for the period of the Second World War when he was in the army . |
| 12 | He was the perfect committee chairman : he loved committee work when it was productive , and it always was when he was in the chair . |
| 13 | The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae , published in various centres between 1605 and 1610 when he was in the service of the Brunswick court at Wolfenbuttel , are in themselves an astonishing monument of skill and industry . |
| 14 | He took up the daily routine of his swim again , and one afternoon when he was in the sea there was a visit to the bungalow by Timothy Gedge . |
| 15 | They were written either while he was on solo trips to London or elsewhere , or in the early days of the war when he was in the RAF . |
| 16 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 17 | That 's This is a place now from Tony 's on some of those photos you 're looking at when he was in the garden see the mountains . |
| 18 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 19 | He knew when he was beneath the gate-towers because he could see how the machicolations projected against the sky rounded shapes of darkness void of stars ; but he heard not a sound , not even the tread of the watch on the walk between the towers . |
| 20 | He had his revenge in March 1322 , when he was among the royalist army which defeated Lancaster at Boroughbridge . |
| 21 | His first race was at Oulton Park in 1962 when he was behind the wheel of a Porsche . |