Example sentences of "when [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 2 | A very cloak and dagger episode followed when I had to meet a colleague on shore after landing on a remote beach by motor boat . |
| 3 | When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et toro , you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii . |
| 4 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 5 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 6 | She scrabbled around on the floor of the dispenser , frantically trying to find something edible , anything that she had overlooked when she had cleared a space for herself ; but it was useless . |
| 7 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 8 | ‘ Collier gave her the necessary sum , and when she had received a receipt of payment from the agent , he duly robbed the agent of the money … |
| 9 | When she had acquired a range of basic editing skills she started looking round for what to do with them . |
| 10 | It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’ |
| 11 | When they had eaten a couple of mouthfuls they started to open their mail . |
| 12 | In addition to the squalor , residents suffered from prejudice when they had to give a Springtown address . |
| 13 | In December 1947 , for example , when they had agreed a memorandum on Area Board organisation , Randall , the London Board chairman , insisted that it should be a purely advisory document not binding on the areas ; and some degree of variation in local organisation did in fact emerge . |
| 14 | He remembered the occasion when they had paid a visit to St Whatever-it-was on Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |
| 15 | The next day or the day after perhaps , when they had talked a lot about the commune project , Mary had come up with Bella 's name . |
| 16 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 17 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 18 | A row had followed : he had been returning home when he had heard a noise . |
| 19 | Yes , and then my father , when he had recovered a bit , he came to live with Grandma . |
| 20 | When he had drawn a furrow that everybody could see was one of the best — even before the stickers put the sticks on it — they say : |
| 21 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 22 | Later , when he had evolved a sign language of his own , he would cross his thumbs and flap his hands : this meant ‘ chicken ’ or ‘ food ’ ( The Observer , 30 August 1978 ) . |
| 23 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 24 | Once when he had to play a matinée at the Old Vic , for instance , in Hamlet , scarcely offstage for a moment , there was a Welsh International match . |
| 25 | Then Mr Sayers died prematurely when John was only about fifteen , so he was still just a boy when he had to become a man overnight , so to speak , and try and take on the running of this large and rather complicated farm . |
| 26 | Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away . |
| 27 | Jim still carries the scars of his Carry Ons — he fell off the camel he was supposed to be riding and his left arm was badly broken during the making of Doctor , when he had to ride a hospital trolley down a flight of stairs , through a plate-glass window and on to a table . |