Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 2 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 4 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 5 | When I had got the whole lot home I had a think . |
| 6 | Quite evidently when I had performed the various therapies I had n't performed them properly . |
| 7 | There was no answer to her knocking , so , when she had balanced the buttered scone on the parcel of bread-soda , she opened the door and put her head round the jamb . |
| 8 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 9 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 10 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 11 | She had only seen him when she had climbed the wooden steps up to the promenade : he was out of sight of the kiosk , waiting across the road , almost hidden in the dark cave of an amusement arcade . |
| 12 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 13 | When she had finished the entire slice , and he had refilled her cup , he said , ‘ There is a way out of this , you know . |
| 14 | Mandy had just left out one crucial detail when she had described the young woman who had arrived from England . |
| 15 | He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes . |
| 16 | And when she 'd learned the full amount of the financial sums involved Laura had n't felt too cheerful either . |
| 17 | When she 'd finished the second glass , he was still there , and still trying to catch her eye . |
| 18 | Of course , she had n't been joking when she 'd told the English girl that a marriage between two highly charged Leos could be an explosive situation . |
| 19 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
| 20 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 21 | The few other tourists who had been here had hurried for cover when they had seen the black sky approaching . |
| 22 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |
| 23 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |
| 24 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 25 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 26 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 27 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 28 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 29 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 30 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |