Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] when the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick had been called in when the man had threatened his team with a baseball bat . |
| 2 | A chip pan had caught fire at a house in Sandsend Crescent , Hartlepool , on Sunday night , but the blaze had been put out when the firefighters arrived . |
| 3 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 4 | Black 's surf and Neil Young fascinations had been taken in when The Beach Boys ' ‘ I Know There 's An Answer ’ and ‘ Youngy 's Fuckin' ’ Up ’ played on the PA before his entrance . |
| 5 | Black 's surf and Neil Young fascinations had been taken in when The Beach Boys ' ‘ I Know There 's An Answer ’ and ‘ Youngy 's Fuckin' ’ Up ’ played on the PA before his entrance . |