Example sentences of "in [num] when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was edited by the young Jomo Kenyatta , who halted publication in 1934 when he went to England . |
| 2 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 3 | Margaret 's career with Salas started in 1948 when she left a senior secretarial job with Cadbury 's Scottish office to take responsibility for all typing staff at head office . |
| 4 | He began his business career in 1948 when he became chief metallurgist at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell . |
| 5 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 6 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 7 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |
| 8 | Wimbledon fans will remember Castle 's fine court one performance in 1986 when he led Matts Wilander two sets to one before going down in five . |
| 9 | Mr Mark Rees , of Tunbridge Wells , Kent , made news in 1986 when he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 10 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 11 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 12 | I saw this piece of rock back in 1986 when I went to America with Gerald Costello for the NCMD to help set up the World Council for Metal Detecting . |
| 13 | The national organisation , which represents the whole of the building industry , started in 1866 when it held its initial meeting in the Durham Ox public house in Brownlow Hill . |
| 14 | His name was immortalised in 1886 when he hit 485 in six hours 10 minutes , playing for Hampstead against Stoics , on Aug 4 . |
| 15 | This was the route taken by Suworow 's army in 1799 when he discovered there was no road along the east shore of the Urner Lake ( along the line of the present day Axenstrasse ) from Altdorf . |
| 16 | Sidney and Beatrice Webb surprised the labour movement in 1935 when they added to their earlier works an exhaustive and largely favourable account of the working of soviet society . |
| 17 | He got his sole opportunity in 1599 when he induced Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) to approve a copper coinage scheme for Ireland which was put into operation in 1601 , though he was not able to secure a monopoly for its production . |
| 18 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 19 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 20 | His first film break came in 1980 when he starred in the movie version of his great Broadway success The Pirates of Penzance . |
| 21 | Conservationist Dexter Cate of Hawaii was jailed for 100 days in 1980 when he released several hundred dolphins from the bay into which they had been driven before slaughter . |
| 22 | His estrangement from many of his former colleagues became complete in 1980 when he endorsed the presidential candidacy of Ronald Reagan . |
| 23 | He secured his most spectacular coup in 1872 when he won a concession from the shah of Persia covering the exploitation of all industrial and mineral rights . |
| 24 | This revulsion at industrialisation , with Birmingham as its easily-targeted object , was expressed no more vividly than by J. B. Priestley in 1933 when he wrote English Journey . |
| 25 | ] Sweeney in 1933 when he talked of coming over all of a hoo-hah . |
| 26 | A crucial stage in the reign of Offa was certainly reached in 784–5 when he intervened again in Kent , this time decisively . |
| 27 | It was left to the York writer , Hugh the Chanter , to tell us that after Ralph died in 1122 , his successor , William of Corbeil , took them to Rome in 1123 when he went to get his pallium . |
| 28 | The story of Karen and her brown envelope began in 1972 when she took a new job at a nuclear factory in Oklahoma . |
| 29 | The IMM commenced business in 1972 when it listed seven foreign currency futures contracts . |
| 30 | He was President of the Reception Committee of the 8th Biennial Congress of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in 1903 when he received his guests with magnificent and lavish hospitality . |