Example sentences of "had [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I exclaimed — as once I had exclaimed when reading the Electra . |
| 2 | Chris had exclaimed when she heard that . |
| 3 | With one hand he would try to mend Britain 's fences with the United States by using his own close relationship with President Eisenhower and other senior members of the US Administration , which he had formed when he was British political adviser at Eisenhower 's Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean during the War . |
| 4 | Faded photographs , familiar as wallpaper , looked down upon us ; and water-colours she had painted when a girl holidaying in Switzerland . |
| 5 | As he ran , his senses remained alert to the night around him , to ensure he did not run slap into any other hunting parties like the one that had intervened when he was dealing with Grant . |
| 6 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 7 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 8 | It was noted however and then the theory was that perhaps you had stumbled when you were out walking and fallen in the river . |
| 9 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 10 | Much of her work was in microscopic petrology and mineralogy , interests which she had developed when training under Bonney . |
| 11 | Duncan Smith , prosecuting , said a row had developed when Harker and his girlfriend were living with his parents in Chaucer Avenue , Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | In September 1991 , Bernhard flew his small aircraft along , and videoed , the exact route and at the same altitude that W1048 had flown when she attacked the Tirpitz in 1942 . |
| 13 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 14 | It was the same cry I had heard when I was with Stapleton on the edge of the Great Grimpen Marsh . |
| 15 | It was partly rotten , and had broken when he struck with it , but it was sound enough and heavy enough to stun . |
| 16 | That was the message Molly had received when she had come down the stairs and left her husband at the dinner table . |
| 17 | The scar would be a legacy of the injuries which he had received when attempting to haul Simon from the wreckage of his car . |
| 18 | Her initial insane reaction to the loss had eased when she confronted the reality of the other woman and the new tears played an essential part in her healing . |
| 19 | The Marshal crossed the sunny fore-court towards the shadow of the stone archway and into his office , where he could take off the dark glasses which he always had to wear when the sun was out . |
| 20 | Colonel Windsor had to prompt when Tubby relapsed once again into a brooding torpor . |
| 21 | as if my life had stopped when the glass was started and will only start again when it is done . |
| 22 | The rain had stopped when I emerged from the subway exit at Fernhill . |
| 23 | Phoebe , on the other hand , suddenly could not remember what false name she had given when she made the appointment . |
| 24 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 25 | A number of them old , dedicated members of the Party who had joined when Mussolini first came to power — fraternized much too much with the Germans . |
| 26 | Sadly , at set and a break up , she aggravated a groin injury and had to retire when leading 1–0 in the final set . |
| 27 | Darkness had fallen when we reached the beaches , having travelled over ground in places very familiar . |
| 28 | In the corner where she had fallen when Garty hit her , Jess crooked her knees then slowly pulled herself up . |
| 29 | Sadly this expanding empire had fallen when he foolishly overstepped the boundary of good taste and opened The Girlfriend 's Legs to a waiting world . |
| 30 | Drovers had pastured their herds here for many years but their customary right had vanished when Flemyng bought the ground and it was a daily vexation of Cameron 's to move the animals out from among his materials and even from inside the unfinished walls . |