Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] when [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 2 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 3 | Make a note of the number of needles so that when you have to return these stitches to the cuff you know how many you need to decrease evenly across the work . |
| 4 | ( d ) Action on receipt of replies First peruse each reply carefully , consider its significance ; and if the reply is benign , pass on to the next , but before you do , tick the answer in the margin , or if it calls for clarification or action , put a cross in the margin , so that when you have considered every reply , you can go over them all comprehensively , and take whatever action is called for . |
| 5 | Then he executed a half-somersault and twisted so that when he had stabilised he was level with Rostov , but inverted . |
| 6 | printer so that when he 's hived off he 's got some |
| 7 | Fernando laughed out loud and when he 'd finished he clasped her hand to his lips . |
| 8 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 9 | Just as when she had spoken to him , the invitation seemed overt . |
| 10 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , she still weighed more than when she had floated in Witwaterstrand . |
| 12 | R said that he did not really know F beforehand but had seen him and his brothers once before when someone had told him who F was . |
| 13 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
| 14 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 15 | He had caught a glimpse of her tender expression once before when he had handed her Effie 's baby to hold , and later when she had bathed it before they had left the Buildings . |
| 16 | Acting as quickly as when she had gone to ground after Nicandra 's Nettie , she took his hand , lightly as a tame bird arriving to perch on a finger ; with a touching confidence in his response , she turned her little monkey 's face up to him , dropped the hand she had touched and , without a backward look led the way to the Ballroom . |
| 17 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 18 | Sir , on that after you 've had food does more fre more often than when you 've had nothing to eat ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her voice , her body , her smell were as familiar to him as his own , but essentially he knew no more about her now than when she had arrived . |
| 21 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 22 | I , I did , and then of course as I say er , you know , with my husband , well I had lovely holidays before but when you 've got a companion it 's all too different is n't it ? |
| 23 | No I did n't Maisie , cos I asked Rose about that before because when you 've got the cloakroom . |
| 24 | Of course , the coroner drank as if there was no tomorrow and when he had had his fill , leaned back against the pillar of the huge fireplace , belched , and pronounced himself satisfied . |
| 25 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 26 | You need send nothing with the child Ellen as he will need quite different clothes here and when I have seen and measured him I will make them myself . |
| 27 | Men Paddy had worked with at Smith 's trooped past ; so did the neighbours who had stood here before when he had buried Eileen . |
| 28 | Are you saying then that when one 's lapsed for six months or over a given period of time we should actually go out there and remove the signs |
| 29 | She had looked twice that when she had limped into her cousin Mandy 's apartment in Vernon , in the Okanagan Valley , burnt out , exhausted , disillusioned and emotional . |
| 30 | He d have these two hideous , fat , white women up there and when he 'd finished he 'd come down to play football in the street . |