Example sentences of "when he [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cliff 's tally of 20 League goals in 1963–64 , when he was joint-top scorer with Peter Burridge , has only been exceeded since 1961 by Mark Bright in 1988 and Ian Wright in 1989 , but Cliff again headed our list of scorers in Division Two in 1964–65 with 11 more goals , and he did so in spite of spending several games at centre-half . |
| 2 | Lord Callaghan , when he was Prime Minister , made the point that he was not necessarily going to be merely the post box in the system . |
| 3 | When he was prime minister , this meant holding the Motherland Party together by playing off its various factions against each other . |
| 4 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 5 | It all started when he was eleven months old . |
| 6 | All blooming right for him when he was six feet in the air . |
| 7 | When he was six years old , he became a private pupil of Dr. Joseph Watson , Principal of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Poor . |
| 8 | First time he ever rode a motor bike , like a two wheel , was when he was six years old . |
| 9 | er Stella left er , when he was six month 's old |
| 10 | His nose was too large and a little crooked since taking a devastating straight left in the boxing ring when he was fifteen years old , his chin too irregular . |
| 11 | He signed for Liverpool when he was sixteen years old , and he was going to be a footballer . |
| 12 | At that time the Oxford course lasted seven years and Richard left before taking his degree when he was nineteen years old , feeling , as he explains in his mystical treatise The Fire of Love , that his youth was being wasted on worldly and dissolute pursuits . |
| 13 | So here I publish a picture of him ten years ago when he was Junior Minister he is enjoying a marvellous a party at London 's Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's so popular that when he was castrated people sent get well cards . ’ |
| 15 | When he was fifty yards down the path he remembered the trousers still on the creel . |
| 16 | According to Katib Celebi , he finished the a commentary on in Shiraz in 740/1339–40 , when he was twenty-six years of age . |
| 17 | Leonard Bernstein started on the road to fame in the early nineteen forties when he was assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic at the age of just twenty five . |
| 18 | She collected Ben from his breeders when he was eight weeks old , having paid £175 . |
| 19 | Jordan says he picked up his first guitar when he was four years old . |
| 20 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 21 | Mother took him for lessons on the violin when he was five years old . |
| 22 | When he was five years old he lost his guide when out riding ; frightened by the ‘ horrid imaginations ’ conjured up by the inscription in the turf , he saw a pool , a beacon , and a woman . |
| 23 | ‘ My mother swears he 's the image of my brother when he was that age . ’ |
| 24 | Which Jewish feast did Jesus celebrate with his parents in Jerusalem when he was twelve years old ? |
| 25 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 26 | However , disaster struck when he was 11 years old . |
| 27 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 28 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 29 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 30 | But Mick Jagger wore a suit when he was best man to photographer David Bailey . |