Example sentences of "when [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 2 | The second was when I had mistaken a stag beetle for a cockroach . |
| 3 | I claimed no personal credit for that , since , like most girls , I could always tell when I had lit a spark in a man at sight , and vice versa . |
| 4 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 5 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 6 | Maja Nagel rues the day when she had to leave a castle in the East for a cramped little studio in Berlin . |
| 7 | That was when she had made a fool of herself . |
| 8 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 9 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |
| 10 | Kirk became known internationally as " Captain Kirk " in 1983 when he had led a fleet of fishing boats across the North Sea to challenge the 12-mile exclusion zone declared by the United Kingdom government [ see pp. 32340 ; 33681 ] . |
| 11 | He remembered when he had led a regiment of Church militia into the Swinkbacks , driving a ragged group of Jeopardites before them . |
| 12 | I once saw Bert cry tears when he had rouged a gnat 's cock too much off . |
| 13 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 14 | A quality innings of 46 from Crowe ended after 135 minutes when he had to play a Lewis leg-cutter and the ball carried to second slip Hick , who lunged forward to reach and hold it . |
| 15 | Some of the money raised would provide a Christmas party and disco for the children ; Anne remembered when it had provided a day out at Redcar . |