Sentence examples for been when he was from inspiring English sources

His first job had been when he was fifteen.

It leaves him looking exactly the height that he must have been when he was painted.

His only significant contact with the state had been when he was drafted into the Army, in the nineties.

In prison, Khodorkovsky became, if anything, even more of a threat to Putin than he had been when he was running Yukos.

He was in town for a speech at the Radisson Hotel, where his words were sharper than they had been when he was surging.

When Reggie Jones moved back to Logan, the town was far worse off than it had been when he was growing up.

Presumably, that is when he was killed.

That's when he was seventy-four".

"That's when he was really cooking".

That was when he was spotted.

And that was when he was healthy.