Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] when [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had only seen him when she had climbed the wooden steps up to the promenade : he was out of sight of the kiosk , waiting across the road , almost hidden in the dark cave of an amusement arcade . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm — ’ Her voice was quite flat , with no sign of the bitterness that had edged it earlier , or the mad rage that must have possessed her when she had destroyed Jessamy 's clothes . |
| 3 | She had done it when he had failed his eleven-plus , when her sister had become an alcoholic — maybe when his father had died , for all he knew . |
| 4 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 5 | To be fair , she could n't recall actually hearing him say the boat was his , but he certainly had n't corrected her when she had assumed him to be the owner . |
| 6 | She thought back with bitter awareness of what the astrologer had told her when she had read her charts . |
| 7 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |
| 8 | ‘ I got a taxi , ’ she explained , remembering the odd look the driver had given her when she had confessed she had no idea where she was and wanted to go all the way to London . |
| 9 | He seemed to have meant it when he had told her he would leave her on her own until she was in a more reasonable frame of mind . |
| 10 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |