Example sentences of "[coord] when [pron] had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club .
2 During these initial months Blake was intensively interrogated by MI6 and when they had finished in November 1961 the question arose as to where Blake was to serve his sentence .
3 The two girls were silent as they cooked and when they had to speak to one another spoke in quick , urgent whispers .
4 And when it had trembled for twenty-two
5 And when he had done with her , she could wipe him from her mind , obliterate him .
6 And when he had left off playing I would go and sit by him , and a little later we would all lead the good old man to his cottage .
7 And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole .
8 She had already thrown yesterday 's damp tea-leaves on to the parlour carpet , and when she had finished in the surgery would take a small , hard hand-brush and , down on her knees yet again , would painstakingly sweep them all up into a dustpan , to remove the previous day 's dirt and dust , Miss Mates said , and purify the air .
9 Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts .
10 He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat .
11 But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away .
12 At the moment her eyes were coaxing as they turned on Alain , but when she had looked at Jenna there had been a coldness that was quickly hidden .
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