Example sentences of "when he [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An essay or a lecture on some general theme did not always have the required effect , as some of the otherwise magisterial addresses delivered when he was a world-figure tend to show . |
| 2 | When he was a bit older and more rational , William wondered if his interest in the darkest periods of human history was an attempt to exorcise these terrors of his childhood ; to look at the worst of them , coldly and analytically , and not be afraid . |
| 3 | This had been the view vehemently advocated by the Independent Labour Party in the 1920s and by Oswald Mosley , when he was a supporter of the Labour Party during the 1920s . |
| 4 | Dodie Penalosa from the Philippines , who challenges Dave McAuley for the International Boxing Federation 's flyweight title at Wembley Arena tonight , suffered from poliomyelitis when he was a child and has been left with a weak left leg and restricted mobility . |
| 5 | When he was a child and his mother was ill , he thought he could make her better by writing a play . |
| 6 | When he was a child Nigel had thought of peeing as sex . |
| 7 | He was lent to a forester when he was a child . ’ |
| 8 | Although one age regressed subject produced superficially childish drawings , they were nothing like what he actually produced when he was a child . |
| 9 | Mills died on Melia 's 20th birthday and he recalls that when he was a child , Freddie was a boys ' idol and boys used to pretend to be him . |
| 10 | Josenaldo 's family came from Paraiba when he was a child . |
| 11 | Sometimes he thought about Adam when he was a child and what a dear little boy he had been , affectionate and not troublesome . |
| 12 | Does it belong to his parents , as it did , to a very large extent , when he was a child ? |
| 13 | K.175 in D is still a relatively lightweight work , but shows an important advance on the earlier ‘ parodies ’ , written when he was a child . |
| 14 | His father , a Hertfordshire attorney , died when he was a child and he was brought up by his uncle , Izaak Walton , the author of Lives of Hooker and Herbert and the friend of Nicholas Ferrar . |
| 15 | His uncle had taken him to see the Walt Disney film when he was a child . |
| 16 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 17 | When he was a child Ifor became Rich 's North Star . |
| 18 | His family had protected him when he was a child and youth , and the search for another such secure haven was one of the dominant notes of his life : both in its denial during his marriage to Vivien which rendered him so anxious and insecure , and in its triumphant restitution at the end of his life . |
| 19 | When he was a child of about ten or eleven , William used to play a kind of game with his shadow , except that it was n't a game , really , it was deadly serious . |
| 20 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 21 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 22 | , Benjamin ( 1913–1946 ) , boxer , was born 2 April 1913 at 17 Florence Street in the Hutchesontown district of Glasgow , the second son ( his elder brother died when he was a child ) of John Lynch , railwayman , and his wife Elizabeth Alexander . |
| 23 | He had no doubt played here when he was a child , climbed trees , even swam in the river that … |
| 24 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 25 | Erm keeps giving little bits erm It was when he was a child apparently , he claims to have been aware of it , you know ? |
| 26 | You remember , Dick , ’ he turned to the Archdeacon , ‘ he knew him when he was a curate at Narborough ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ So you knew him when he was a curate at Narborough ? ’ |
| 28 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 29 | When he was a couple of paces away , the horse 's nerve broke . |
| 30 | Mr. Ray Powell : Does the Secretary of State recall that when he was a Minister in the Department of Energy , he was responsible for several colliery closures in Wales ? |