Example sentences of "when you have [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 2 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 3 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 4 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 5 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 6 | To love when you have been betrayed in love all your life . |