Example sentences of "when he [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 2 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 3 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 4 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 5 | A CHEF who cancelled the final stage of a £20,000 sex-change operation when he fell for a pretty blonde announced yesterday : ‘ She 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 6 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 7 | His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years . |
| 8 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 9 | When he stopped for a moment to wipe the sweat from his brow , Trung laid a cautionary hand on his arm . |
| 10 | But one can sympathise with Mr Justice Henry , the now redundant Guinness judge , when he called for a radical re-appraisal of the way big fraud cases are handled . |
| 11 | South African President F W de Klerk ducked out of the row when he arrived for a three-day visit to Britain . |
| 12 | Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks . |
| 13 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |