Example sentences of "when he was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intellectuals claimed a formative influence in the second too : John of Marmoutier declared that monks from his own monastery had read Vegetius ' De Re Militari to Geoffrey le Bel when he was investing the castle of a rebellious castellan , and ascribed his success to their advice on firebombs . |
| 2 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 3 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 4 | He met Diana in 1988 when he was given the job of coaching Prince William in horsemanship . |
| 5 | Dave Webb 's disappointment at missing out on the Chelsea manager 's job was eased yesterday when he was named the new boss of Brentford . |
| 6 | NICK FALDO , undoubtedly the most successful golfer in the world in 1989 , collected yet another award in London yesterday when he was made the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year . |
| 7 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 8 | On the evening when he was to undergo the experience , unique for a Prime Minister of this century , of winding up a debate with the certain knowledge of defeat at the end of his speech , Tom Jones saw him in his room behind the Speaker 's chair . |
| 9 | ‘ He was shot last night when he was taking the dog for a walk . ’ |
| 10 | His first appearance in surviving records appears to be late in 1249 , when he was appointed the abbot of Westminster 's attorney for litigation in the Common Bench . |
| 11 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 12 | Judd said half the fun of being with girls was when he was doing the chasing . |
| 13 | In early 1990 , when he was attracting the international attention of the Scotland national coach Andy Roxburgh , the Scottish tabloid press ran a sad and damaging story about the financial catastrophes he had left behind in Glasgow . |
| 14 | It was when he was testing the third of those with his stethoscope that Carrington beckoned to Talbot , who came and listened in turn . |
| 15 | Discarded by big spenders Leeds as a costly £150,000 flop less than 12 months after switching codes , the 16-stone Salford prop defied the knockers when he was handed the captaincy of his country . |
| 16 | In the spring of 1939 , Picasso stated to Zervos that at the time when he was painting the Demoiselles his attention had been centred on Iberian sculpture in the Louvre . |
| 17 | ‘ Guess it 's some kind of indigenous British bird , huh ? ’ , suggested an American copy editor I worked with recently when he was checking the meaning of the term ‘ reggie-spotter ’ . |
| 18 | Few Englishmen would have disagreed with Archbishop Benson when he was describing the visitors to London for the 1887 Jubilee . |
| 19 | Later he studied with Herbert Sumsion , and was made an Associate of the Royal College of Organists in 1957 when he was awarded the Limpus and Read prizes . |
| 20 | In 1988 , when he was awarded the Seoul Peace Prize he announced the cash award of £180,000 would help establish an Olympic Museum in Lausanne near the committee 's headquarters . |
| 21 | , William ( c. 1580–1619 ) , portrait painter , is first recorded on 17 July 1606 when he was awarded the freedom of the City of London by redemption in the Company of Painter-Stainers . |