Example sentences of "when in [adj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 2 | The intended beneficiary of this dynastic coup was Osred ( II ) , the son of King Alhred by Osgifu , Aelfwald 's sister , a youth of no more than 19 at the time , who reigned for a year but then fell a victim to further shifts of allegiance when in 789 he was taken prisoner , deprived of his kingdom , tonsured at York and expelled , and Aethelred , son of Aethelwald , resumed royal power ( ASC D , s.a. 788 , 789 ) . |
| 3 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 4 | A young Frenchman , when in 1896 he entered his country 's diplomatic service , found himself trained as in the past , largely by being made to copy as models of style despatches dating from the pre-revolutionary monarchy . |
| 5 | The Reverend Martin Luther King achieved his first success in Montgomery , Alabama , when in 1955 he organized a boycott of the bus-services of the city by 17 000 blacks . |
| 6 | A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies . |
| 7 | When in 1831 he published his second novel , The Young Duke , the faults of the aristocracy lacked their social dimension . |
| 8 | Clearly this is what Andrea 's nephew Giovanni ( C. 1555–1612 ) had in mind when in 1587 he published a collection of motets , Mass-movements , and madrigals by his uncle and himself as Concerti ( a very early use of the term ) per voci , & stromenti Musicali ; a 6.7.8.10.12. & 16 . |
| 9 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 10 | When in 1951 he demanded another 40 per cent expansion , ‘ that did not work at all , since these steel masters had been so nourished on Malthusianism that their dominant fear was over-production . |
| 11 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 12 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 13 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 14 | When in 1988 he was entrusted with the job of getting a development programme among local Chinese off the ground , sceptics said it would be a lost cause — Hong Kong rugby hardly boasted a Chinese team at the time . |
| 15 | This was indeed the case in the original proposal of Boltzmann , when in 1876 he sought to explain the experiments of Weber and Kohlrausch on the elastic after-effect in twisted wires . |
| 16 | His life-long passion for his native city was further demonstrated when in 1860 he donated the then huge sum of £150,000 towards the restoration of St. Patrick 's Cathedral . |
| 17 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 18 | When in 1613 he ‘ went beyond the seas without licence ’ and settled first at Brussels , then at Antwerp , he was in personal contact with another expatriate , Peter Philips , and with the Amsterdam organist Sweelinck , both of whom figure in the Fitzwilliam Book . |
| 19 | Minton had already lent his talent to cooking when in 1946 he and Denton Welch prepared vignettes for Contemporary Cooking : Receipts from Vogue 1945–47 . |
| 20 | When in 1947 he was invited to join the Dixielanders one of his fellow musicians was Wally Fawkes , the Daily Mail column-breaker and cartoonist , who came out to Camberwell once a week to attend Minton 's illustration classes . |