Example sentences of "when he was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Christians today believe Jesus is the Son of God , and that when he was conducting his ministry on earth , even though he was fully human , he was also divine . |
| 2 | When he was conducting I would often sit in the orchestra in the middle of the woodwinds . |
| 3 | When he was done he unstrapped himself , then took one of the white sheets from the side and threw it over her , watching as the blood spread out from the centre of the white ; a doubled circle of redness that slowly formed into an ellipse . |
| 4 | But just when he was thinking it was his exclusive preserve , along came Monty . |
| 5 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 6 | When he was dressed he sat on the bed wondering what to do . |
| 7 | Happily Lendl 's humour resurfaced when he was asked what difference marriage had made : ‘ Before I could do everything I wanted to do , now I have to ask . ’ |
| 8 | Yet when he was asked what went through his mind as he confronted the gunman , he replied with a joke . |
| 9 | But when he was asked What are you carrying anyway ? he said Thirteen thousand fir trees . |
| 10 | When he was asked his philosophy , this man said that freedom and release could only come when you saw a muddy ditch as being the same as the beautiful Ganges . |
| 11 | When he was asked his name , Gallacher replied with typical arrogance , ‘ If you do n't know me , you 've no business being on the field ! |
| 12 | ‘ When he was beaten his Dad did n't only buy the winning kart he bought the entire team for his son . |
| 13 | This was in part due to Reginald Birch 's illustrations which kept the boy always in black velvet and lace , even when he was riding his pony , and in part to the intense relationship between mother and son ; Mrs Burnett here had in mind herself and her son Vivian , upon whom Fauntleroy himself was modelled . |
| 14 | A 14-year-old boy was also the victim of a trickster when he was riding his £150 chrome BMX bike in Nunnery Lane , Darlington . |
| 15 | ‘ Using a pilot device , police recorded his speed as 99.04 miles per hour and when he was stopped he replied : ‘ I 'm in a hurry , my girlfriend is pregnant ’ , ’ said Mr Fenn . |
| 16 | But when he was given his chance at half-time , he scored within two minutes , grabbing his 19th goal in his 41st game for his country , and his eighth in his last eight appearances with an unstoppable header . |
| 17 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 18 | John knew when he was being lied to but knew also when he was wasting his time . |
| 19 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 20 | ( When alone in Tom 's attic recently , found his passport and discovered that when he was born I was already at Grammar School , doing Domestic Science — in vain , as it turned out ) . |
| 21 | When he was born I felt detached . |
| 22 | He had been her youngest son ; when he was born his two elder brothers were nearly grown , twelve and fourteen , and his father was already an invalid , dying in a nursing home on the south coast . |
| 23 | When he was semi-retired he sat on a chair in the corner of the saloon , gossiping away to his customers . |
| 24 | Well , Jackie was a shooting champion before he was ever a driving champion and , listening to him recently at Gleneagles , when he was taking my neophyte self through the task of shooting at moving targets , I was conscious of how simply Jackie takes these complicated relations between brain and body . |
| 25 | When he was shot he was not wearing his jacket or tie so presumably he felt at home , wherever it was . ’ |
| 26 | The main problem that people encounter as they begin to practise the Alexander Technique is the same as Alexander experienced when he was developing his Technique , that is , an unreliable sensory feedback mechanism . |
| 27 | Alfred Pacquement and Jack Cowart of the National Gallery , Washington , the curators of the exhibition ( at the Jeu de Paume until 24 May ) , have focused on Kelly 's early years , the late Forties and Fifties , when he was developing his Abstract manner . |
| 28 | To him , perplexity was worse than danger ; and when he was perplexed he usually grew angry . |
| 29 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 30 | He was met by Kjell-Arne , his kennel boy , who told him that when he was eating his lunch he heard the noise of a dog scratching against the door . |