Example sentences of "when [pron] have first " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And the day , not long afterwards , when she 'd first heard someone call her father crazy .
2 That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost .
3 That had been one of the biggest worries when she had first fled to France : what was everyone going to say ?
4 In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing .
5 To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company .
6 On the contrary , time and again Ashley had found herself thinking about Vitor 's looks , that purring accent , those first moments when they had first met .
7 Since that day in August when he had first visited the house up the valley , he had , during the past ten weeks , made a dozen return visits .
8 He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody .
9 With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar .
10 For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman .
11 Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer .
  Next page