Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan 's interest in anthropology had begun when he noticed the systematic pattern created by the totality of the terms used to refer to relatives and kinsmen . |
| 2 | JC : I wonder how far the piece had progressed when I engaged you to come and sing with Sadler 's Wells Opera in January 1943 ? |
| 3 | Where last the light had died when she had gone . |
| 4 | Her initial insane reaction to the loss had eased when she confronted the reality of the other woman and the new tears played an essential part in her healing . |
| 5 | Apart from sniffing , as Hazel and Cowslip had done when they met , formal gestures — except between mating rabbits — were unknown to Hazel and his companions . |
| 6 | For example , in many road accident situations , the witness will only have realised that an accident had occurred when they heard the crash , and looked round and saw the aftermath , although they will try and tell you that they actually saw the vehicles colliding . |
| 7 | Without any warning , she found herself remembering how Julius 's body had felt when she had cannoned into it , just minutes ago . |
| 8 | The rain had stopped when I emerged from the subway exit at Fernhill . |
| 9 | Something the innkeeper had said when I made apologies for possessing no luggage had begun to tip my mood . |
| 10 | The clouds had thickened and the moon had gone when I left her house and made my way cautiously down the slippery brick path . |
| 11 | Her mother , Pamela Bootyman , said her daughter 's behaviour had changed when she reached the age of 12 or 13 . |
| 12 | Muspratt died 1 September 1923 at Seaforth Hall , near Liverpool , which his father had built when he settled on Merseyside . |
| 13 | Terry and his father had returned when she went downstairs and the meal was ready . |
| 14 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 15 | So Ruth , she 's been led to one who was able to restore to her all that Elimelech had lost when he left Bethlehem . |
| 16 | NICK FALDO , world No 1 last week and with a highly creditable share of sixth place in the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans at the weekend , found his halo had slipped when he arrived at Augusta for the US Masters yesterday . |
| 17 | And what the hell had happened when he 'd first met Rohmer ? |
| 18 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 19 | She remembered how the temperature in the restaurant had dropped when she had made her unwitting gaffe . |
| 20 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 21 | It was n't right the way her heart had leapt when he 'd touched her . |
| 22 | She had thought she was just physically attracted to him , but the way her heart had leapt when he 'd returned just now was something else . |
| 23 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 24 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 25 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 26 | Darkness had fallen when we reached the beaches , having travelled over ground in places very familiar . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 28 | Many customers found out the company had closed when they found a notice on the door of the company 's Darlington office . |
| 29 | He had been too young to read the note but he could still remember how that table had looked when he came in , its top at the time the height of his own shoulder . |
| 30 | Jean-Paul thought of what their mother had said when he had his farewell interview with his brother . |