Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] when [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you need to know the objects you 're dealing with , then differentiate them , then when you 've differentiated them when you 've differentiated them you can work back and you think , Ah I know how I got that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yeah , but I mean even , even so , she , she has met him once before and she must of seen him when she 's gone to the house for him to kidnap her . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Think about it , Leo had instructed her when she 'd asked about the lovemaking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I suppose you 've seen it when you 've walked by . ’ |
| 8 | There was a tumble-drier in the kitchen ; she had seen it when she 'd gone in there to call Anne . |
| 9 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She thought back with bitter awareness of what the astrologer had told her when she had read her charts . |
| 12 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was Gaston de Rochefort 's daughter , and Rohan knew this — had known it when he became her lover ; had known it when they began to plan their lives together . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 17 | She 'd sensed something when he 'd first stood in the garden with the children ; she 'd sensed it when she 'd opened the hall door to him . |
| 18 | That not only had he stolen her savings , but the money Aunt Jane had left her when she 'd died ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Had I really meant it when I 'd written I would n't have any painkillers ? |
| 21 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 22 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |