Example sentences of "when [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister . |
| 2 | Downstairs , when Jessica had stormed out , her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst . |
| 3 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 4 | When Lalage had gone out to her car , she put down a dog and took Andrew into her long arms . |
| 5 | When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation . |
| 6 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 7 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 8 | Myeloski said when Leeming had settled once again . |
| 9 | She swallowed carefully , her mind skittering back to that day at the office when Rebecca had returned unexpectedly and disturbed them . |
| 10 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 11 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 12 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 13 | The receptionist had opened up readily enough when Ruth had opened up her purse . |
| 14 | Coffee came and when Ross had retreated again , Tim said : ‘ You 'd think there 'd be a chase , would n't you ? |
| 15 | She was relieved when Nigel had to slow down as they reached the outskirts of Cheltenham . |
| 16 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 17 | In Pakistan in 1983–4 he took over again when Willis had to return home sick and gained two creditable draws , after which he was officially appointed to lead England against the West Indies in 1984 , at the age of 27 . |
| 18 | Edward , brooding , remembered a summer long ago when Helen had brought back a schoolfriend and he had felt pushed aside , abandoned . |
| 19 | The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news . |
| 20 | Perhaps she would learn a little more from them when Harry had gone off to sea again , an event she had learnt , over the years , to look forward to . |
| 21 | When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds . |
| 22 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 23 | We took Roydale and Fringe from the lads and when Tremayne had driven off and positioned himself on his hillock we started together up the all-weather gallop , going the fastest I 'd been ever . |
| 24 | When Bissett had left home the sky had been clear . |
| 25 | She had wept when Timothy had gone abroad , but his return had not improved matters . |
| 26 | The woman in the next bed , busily knitting when Juliet had called earlier , glanced at her . |
| 27 | When Juliet had finished there was silence . |
| 28 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 29 | Then there had been the months of creeping doubt , the lack of any real communication between them , and the hostile silences when Julius had refused even to admit that anything was wrong . |
| 30 | As even Dean Richards admitted , the game was beginning to turn when Tim had to go off . |