Example sentences of "when he have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 2 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
| 3 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |
| 4 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 5 | Her eyes were sparkling and her legs bustling when he had staggered into the incident room an hour late at nine o'clock : he had been so tired he had slept through the high-pitched beep of his alarm clock . |
| 6 | When he had kicked over the traces , after Cambridge — joined the City police as a flat-foot , instead of following his family 's military tradition — they had volunteered to come to London with him . |
| 7 | He was also a public figure of some note , being alderman from 1541 and lord mayor in 1550–1 , when he had to deal with the problems caused by dearth and by the 1551 ‘ calling down ’ of the coinage . |
| 8 | Accountability is not confined to policy matters , as William Whitelaw found when he had to report to an astonished House of Commons that an intruder had got into the Queen 's bedroom at Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | When he had got to the hotel , he had looked for Carver , but to no avail . |
| 10 | He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council . |
| 11 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 12 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 13 | The first thing he had done when he had come into the apartment had been to turn off the heating system , and then he had opened the window in his bedroom and the window in the sparsely furnished living room . |
| 14 | Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another . |
| 15 | When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him . |
| 16 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 17 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 18 | And complained that she had refused to let him in when he had returned from the wine bar having forgotten his key . |
| 19 | It was a boiling hot morning , he had three other appointments before lunch , and his head ached dully from the excess of Jack Daniels he had drunk the night before with the child 's father , who had been beside himself with rage when he had arrived at the Presbytery . |
| 20 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 21 | When he had woken from a faint sleep on the ice cold floor of the cell , Holly had known that the lice had found him . |
| 22 | " There , " he said at last , when he 'd travelled in a half-circle . |
| 23 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 24 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 25 | She had n't taken his horse and left him when he 'd fallen into a stupor last night . |
| 26 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 27 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 28 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 29 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 30 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |