Example sentences of "when [pron] have be [verb] [prep] " 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 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 3 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 4 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 5 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 6 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 7 | From the air I do n't have that problem but , curiously , when I 've been shooting on the ground in China I 've relished the people everywhere . |
| 8 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 9 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 10 | ‘ I am always sorry to hear when someone has been hurt in an accident , particularly if it is safety surfacing which has been vandalised that has some way been responsible for the injury . |
| 11 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 12 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 13 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To love when you have been betrayed in love all your life . |
| 18 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 19 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 20 | Suddenly , when she had been lost to everything , alarm bells went off again as the sound of someone knocking on her bedroom door penetrated her thoughts . |
| 21 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 22 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 23 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 24 | When she had been wrestling with him she had used the foul language common among gypsies . |
| 25 | It went back to her childhood when she had been teased by her schoolmates about her stammer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 28 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 29 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 30 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |