Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recalling a symposium held at St. Louis in 1961 , the distinguished organic chemist Herbert C. Brown has commented on the reaction when he suggested that many of the proposed nonclassical structures for carbonium ions had weak experimental support . |
| 2 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 3 | The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes , entrails and testicles rejected by the lion . ’ |
| 4 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 5 | He was educated in France , the family having moved to the Bouches-du-Rhône when he was about nine . |
| 6 | Did you have to help around the house when you were a child ? |
| 7 | The bag must have slipped off the jeep when I parked it . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise , I 'd have gone to the police when Sam did n't show up yesterday . ’ |
| 9 | This is something that you will have discussed with the minister when you arranged the wedding and may vary according to religion and/or ceremonies decided upon . |
| 10 | Darlington could easily have equalised before the break when Lentinue was blocked unfairly in the area but Ross Alderson had his penalty saved by Rob Smith in the Tynemouth goal . |
| 11 | Am I going to have to live on the street when I get out ? |
| 12 | He , Harper and Smith had jumped to the ground when the fire started . |
| 13 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 14 | The whole exchange had been conducted in low tones so that they could not be overheard , but the bar was empty ; even the landlord had found business elsewhere and Wycliffe had to rap on the counter when he went to replenish their glasses . |
| 15 | The Government 's business managers had to come to the rescue when it looked as though the Bill might be lost at Committee Stage . |
| 16 | Ebenezer Judge had resigned from the Brotherhood when the Great War began ; he volunteered for the army , and was sent to Flanders . |
| 17 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 18 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 19 | Roberts 's grandfather had made over the farm when his father married , yet remained the respected patriarch of the household : |
| 20 | Both had remonstrated with the King when he withdrew to his private chambers in the castle to dress for the journey . |
| 21 | I suppose I 've got to the age when I 've started to find the past interesting . ’ |
| 22 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 23 | The truth was , he thought ironically , that he had got to the age when it was too late to have splendid dreams and nice thoughts about himself ; the age when childless people feel the lack of children . |
| 24 | After all , she had agreed to the option when she wanted Adam to join the company : he was only taking what he was entitled to . |
| 25 | Clients of licensed dealer Prior Harwin , for instance , welched on deals they had agreed on the telephone when the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) stopped the firm from trading at the end of 1986 . |
| 26 | With a faint , elusive smile , she recalled a similar sort of feeling when she had yearned after the paperboy when she 'd been fourteen . |
| 27 | Tight-fisted Lloyds spotted she had slipped into the red when it came to pay her £41.62 mortgage instalment . |
| 28 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 29 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 30 | They had gone through the buildings when they had searched the area previously but on that occasion , as Owen reminded himself crossly , he had been summoned away in the middle by that foolish District Chief and sent on that wild goose chase down to the river . |