Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 2 | He had been sacked by the sponsors when finally he arrived at the course . |
| 3 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 4 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 5 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 6 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 7 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 8 | His wife claimed that her husband had been had been shot by the Army when he threatened to expose the whole affair if his $1,000,000 investment in La Cutufa was not returned . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I came across the letter that had been enclosed with the money when I was going through my father 's papers after he died . |
| 10 | Whenever anybody started to make fun of Lennie , calling him cuckoo or crazy , George jumped straight to Lennie 's defence and said that Lennie had been kicked in the head when he was a little boy . |
| 11 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 12 | Frequently , but not always , this same process will have been attempted by the author when inventing the title , which explains why the title is often a useful aid to indexing . |
| 13 | Bourke claimed that Blake brought his two-way radio with him when he escaped and both radios were left at Bourke 's flat in Highlever Road where they must have been found by the police when they raided the flat on I January 1967 . |
| 14 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 15 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 16 | Or if the horse has been jabbed in the mouth when it is being mounted , it goes on expecting pain in the mouth whenever it is mounted . |
| 17 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 18 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 19 | Section 142(2) provided that where a person had been convicted by the magistrates when he had pleaded not guilty or been convicted in his absence and it subsequently appeared that it would be in the interests of justice that the case be heard again by different justices the court might , subject to sub-section ( 4 ) so direct . |
| 20 | The rats had been cleared from the lab when the Leutnant returned with a message for Dr Karnstein . |
| 21 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 22 | These had been acquired by the licensee when Frank Cooper , the Coachbuilder of Brown Street , retired . |
| 23 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
| 24 | After a determined drive from Gianfranco Brancatelli and an unwell Kenneth Acheson , the other Nissan came home fourth , ‘ Branca ’ having been stranded on the grid when the V8 would not start , therefore starting dead last . |