Example sentences of "when she have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm — ’ Her voice was quite flat , with no sign of the bitterness that had edged it earlier , or the mad rage that must have possessed her when she had destroyed Jessamy 's clothes . |
| 2 | When she had taught Sarah to read and write it had been her textbook , and it would have broken her heart if she 'd heard such a tirade after all her patient teaching . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ? |
| 4 | When she had gone Christina thumbed through her diary , glancing at cancelled events and big gaps where Stephen had been away . |
| 5 | When she had gone Scarlet began to peel courgettes , worrying the while whether she was not doing so prematurely : if she left them thus denuded , exposed to the air , they would discolour , while if she immersed them in water , their vitamin C content would dissipate . |
| 6 | When she had gone Scarlet thought how bored with their conversation Brian would have been had he been present , and then she thought that , with him around , they would n't have had that conversation and she would have been bored . |
| 7 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |
| 8 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 9 | Miss Armstrong said that when she had visited Wolsingham Comprehensive School , one of the first users of the Echo on CD-Rom , she had been kept on her toes by the fact that the pupils were well-informed about things she had said and done . |
| 10 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 11 | She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end . |
| 12 | When she had met Margrida d'Arcos , Vitor 's widowed mother , it had been instant rapport . |
| 13 | It immediately reminded her of the unforgettable night at Ali 's Alley when she had met Sanborn , her jazz idol , who had then discreetly found out from her friends which of his songs was her favourite and made an impromptu appearance on stage to play it especially for her . |
| 14 | Ironic now , referring to the evening out with Lionel when she had met Sir Robert for the first time . |
| 15 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 16 | Later , when she had consulted Doctor Staples , she returned , looking grave . |
| 17 | G was green , the colour that B , the biter , turned when she had swallowed apple A. ‘ H , IH ’ , she said , ‘ especially in the stomach , but soon she ached everywhere else as well . |
| 18 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 19 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 20 | Her problems had started before university , when she had changed schools after the fifth form . |
| 21 | Never before had they failed to meet her , and now , when she had left school for good , they had not come . |
| 22 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 23 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 24 | She must 've , she had terrific spirit cos when she had to have breast cancer operation I ca n't |
| 25 | Knowing her fear of the sea they had invariably travelled by air : to Switzerland for ski-ing , to the States , when she had got leave from Brentwoods to accompany him on a kind of working-holiday . |
| 26 | Perhaps Rachel did too , or would do when she had had time to work it out . |
| 27 | At Abernethy , when she had teased Bishop Malduin over his squirrel , the confusion of allegiance from which he was suffering had been very plain . |
| 28 | And yet she had felt something , some quick negative flicker at his casual reference to the promise he had made Emily , just as she had felt that uneasy dart inside her when she had caught sight of them earlier , coming up the path together . |
| 29 | Her palms were sweating , and she hoped they would stop when she had to shake hands with him . |
| 30 | Steve would feel exactly as she had felt when she had thought Fernando was the father of that child — absolute desolation . |