Example sentences of "when [pron] have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 2 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 3 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 4 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 5 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 6 | But why , when she 's been playing for so long , has millions in the bank and leads a very active life outside the tour , does she still have the desire to compete ? |
| 7 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 8 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 9 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 10 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 11 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 12 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 13 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 14 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 15 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 16 | However , the vector is described as being unstable in solution , resulting in less efficient cloning of the PCR-fragments when it has been dissolved for at least two months ( instructions to the ‘ TA Cloning TM System ’ , version 1.1 ) . |
| 17 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |