Example sentences of "when he [verb] [art] [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 | Birchall recalls Le Mans practice last July when he noticed a tiny change in gearbox noise , even above the scream of the Krauser engine . |
| 3 | He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer . |
| 4 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | She must have impressed Green for he gave eye-witness accounts of the so-called Sally of Buttermere and his various meetings with her in 1791 when she was but 14 , again in 1792,1794 , and in 1798 when he felt an irresistible wish to revisit Buttermere . |
| 9 | These diverging tendencies in Nizan 's life-style , on the one hand a genuine aspiration towards a communist future , on the other hand a residual implication in a bourgeois past , were symptomatic of a " tension " in Nizan 's life and work at this time , a " tension " that was resolved only in late 1932 and early 1933 , when he became a permanent official entrusted with the task of compiling the weekly " notes de lecture " in L'Humanite and of supervising the party newspaper 's bookshop located at 120 rue Lafayette . |
| 10 | Shell was an outstanding offensive tackle during his 15 years with the Raiders until his retirement in 1982 , when he became an assistant coach with the club . |
| 11 | Wee Willie Henderson , Rangers ' wing wizard in the '60s went on to fulfil one of his greatest fantasies when he became an on-course Bookie . |
| 12 | Mr. Ferguson conducted these meetings regularly until early 1827 when he became an ordained minister of the Church of England and left the city . |
| 13 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The seventy one year old judge caused uproar in June when he said an eight year old victim of a sex attack was not entirely an angel herself . |
| 19 | If , however , there is no attempt to copy a pattern , there is often more appreciation of shape in whatever is made — like the four-year-old who made a triangular shape from three strips and correctly named it , whilst another boy ( 3.9 ) named the second shape ( a square ) when he added a fourth strip to the original three . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He did not enter controversy again until 1623 when he produced a now-famous polemic book called The Assayer , acclaimed as the height of controversial writing . |
| 22 | Hutchison , the kid Dalglish signed from Hartlepool nearly two years ago , marked his European debut with the winner in the 69th minute when he sent a neat chip over the keeper after being fed by Steve McManaman . |
| 23 | Piotr Prabucki scored a consolation in the 73rd minute when he sent an angled shot into the net off Digby 's fingertips . |
| 24 | As in the 1950s , when he played a similar role in the emergence of CND , he was primarily interested in a committee of notables lobbying the powerful , and had no intention of starting a mass movement . |
| 25 | First elected to Parliament in 1946 , Averoff later served in various ministerial capacities most notably as Foreign Minister in 1956-63 , when he played a key role in reaching agreement on Cyprus 's independence in 1960 . |
| 26 | One can see that , fanciful though the idea of the co-operative community is bound to look in the light of the later development of the Industrial Revolution , in 1814 when he wrote A New View of Society that idea would have seemed quite credible . |
| 27 | They had just turned into Bacon Street when he heard a loud voice calling to him and pulled sharply on the reins . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | 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 . |