Example sentences of "when he was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when he was resting the horseman had to be on the alert for incidents like this to see that nothing untoward happened to his team . |
| 2 | When he was telling the story , he used to bang his fist on his forehead like this . |
| 3 | Dr. Julius Tomlin made international headlines when he was appointed the Philosopher in Residence at a Swindon pub . |
| 4 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 5 | He used it , he said , when he was courting the daughters of wealthy cotton magnates . |
| 6 | Just when he was entering the springtime of life his best life was over … he had tasted freedom only to lose it . |
| 7 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 8 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |
| 9 | Twenty-seven years on , in 1977 , he was duly awarded with another request to visit Buckingham Palace when he was given the OBE. |
| 10 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 11 | Mr Ethrington had no association with the management buyout team when he was advising the Government . |
| 12 | Like they said to Gibbon when he was writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . |
| 13 | ( Strangely , Gabriel never felt he could fly when he was wearing the harness . |
| 14 | And then , when he was eating the |
| 15 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 16 | However , when he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1983 , it was , at least in part , for his early work on the limiting mass of cold stars . |
| 17 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 18 | When he was handed the fags he could hardly believe his luck , he smiled broadly , revealing rows of black and yellow teeth , repeating over and over , ‘ Merci , merci . ’ |
| 19 | When he was handed the official document making Sati illegal in December 1829 , he left the preaching to another and hurried to translate the order into Bengali . |
| 20 | Something ill was always about to befall Little Nemo when he was doing the rounds 85 years ago . |
| 21 | He was originally , when he was doing the |
| 22 | I mean when yo , always up there , I think it 's the electrician when he was doing the he said to me you know , you 've got a lot of condensation in your loft . |
| 23 | When he was climbing the far side of the valley , he stopped for breath , and something made him turn round . |
| 24 | Among their many friends was one Walter Lassally , a young film cameraman they had met in Greece shortly after their marriage , when he was filming The Girl in Black . |
| 25 | Charles Darwin , when he was shown the flower by baffled botanists , confidently predicted that , bearing in mind the flower 's colour and size , a night-flying moth would be its pollinator and that , unlikely though this might sound , it would have a proboscis a foot long . |
| 26 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 27 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 28 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 29 | It is worth noting that the Cuban revolution avoided a similar fate by incorporation of the Communists ; the Bolivian experience may well have been in Castro 's mind when he was assessing the means by which he could sustain his own revolution . |
| 30 | Calzaghe , from Newbridge , won the welterweight title last year but moved up one weight when he was promised the light-middleweight place in the Welsh squad for the Olympic trials last month in Milan . |