Example sentences of "when he have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 2 | It was , however , reported by his personal staff that he did manage a smirk when he had been told the story of how his arch rival and competitor had been conned by his countrymen on a flag-flying visit to the auld counthrie . |
| 3 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 4 | He had been against the choice of London as the location for European Headquarters when he had been Treasurer . |
| 5 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 6 | The mystery paper had brought the ceiling down ; on the telephone to McFarlane two days later , when he had been fired , North 's only explanation was ‘ I missed one . ’ |
| 7 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 8 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |
| 9 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 10 | But the eyes on him were shining as at Kalopetra , when he had been constrained to leave , and she , for a while , had stood to stop him ; stood as close as the flesh on his body . |
| 11 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |
| 12 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 13 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 14 | Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month . |
| 15 | He knew that she and Massingham had worked together before when he had been a newly promoted divisional detective inspector and she a sergeant . |
| 16 | The school 's educational psychologist had made contact with the family when he had been involved in an assessment of Jeetinder , the second son , now in the fourth year at the school . |
| 17 | When he had been keeping Desdemona company , awaiting Othello 's arrival from Venice , Iago had entertained them with impromptu ( and bitter ) rhymes , describing his imagination 's preliminary working ( the rhetorical process of inventio ) in these terms : Frieze is a coarse woollen cloth , birdlime a viscous stuff used to entangle : the destructive collocation of the two seems an apt metaphor for Iago 's ‘ invention ’ . |
| 18 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 19 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 20 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 21 | Mr Travers , a plasterer , who had lost his house when he had been made bankrupt , opened the window slowly . |
| 22 | The first arose out of the practice announced in Mr. Brittan 's statement of 30 November 1983 of seeking the views of the judiciary on the tariff for a prisoner when he had been detained in custody for about three years . |
| 23 | His size still shocked her , when he had been so spare at her mother 's wedding . |
| 24 | He had seen that when he had been watching her ; had seen how she looked at everything with that curious , almost arrogant stare of hers . |
| 25 | A couple of hours later , when he had been talking non-stop on the telephone , she was sitting in a chair half asleep . |
| 26 | He 'd all but forgotten his own early childhood at The Grange , when he had been the gardener 's scruffy little lad , graciously permitted by Lady Debrace to play with her son . |
| 27 | In 1990 , the European Court held that a 60-year-old man employed by an insurance company had been unlawfully discriminated against because when he had been made redundant his company pension scheme was deferred whereas a female member of the scheme could have drawn her pension immediately . |
| 28 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 29 | And later , when he had been in the water , he had seen how she stood behind her husband , watching him , her eyes curious , lingering on his naked chest . |
| 30 | In his book on Maxwell , Joe Haines describes how Maxwell 's normally imperturbable secretary burst into tears after a spell of work when he had been even more demanding than usual . |