Example sentences of "was [adj] when the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Mellor was 30 when the voters of Putney in West London elected him their Tory MP in 1979 — the election that swept Margaret Thatcher to power . |
2 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
3 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
4 | The same principle applies to the highest key on any track ; as the highest key on track 06 was 298 when the file was created , a record with the key 299 belongs logically to track 07 , whether it is stored on that track already or has not yet been added . |
5 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
6 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
7 | She was thirty-five when the machines wore her out . |
8 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
9 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
10 | He was 20 when the Thatcher government came to power . |
11 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |