Example sentences of "had [vb pp] when [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 2 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 3 | In September 1991 , Bernhard flew his small aircraft along , and videoed , the exact route and at the same altitude that W1048 had flown when she attacked the Tirpitz in 1942 . |
| 4 | Her initial insane reaction to the loss had eased when she confronted the reality of the other woman and the new tears played an essential part in her healing . |
| 5 | Phoebe , on the other hand , suddenly could not remember what false name she had given when she made the appointment . |
| 6 | Darkness had fallen when we reached the beaches , having travelled over ground in places very familiar . |
| 7 | Many customers found out the company had closed when they found a notice on the door of the company 's Darlington office . |
| 8 | Sara had smiled when she read the letter . |
| 9 | For example , in many road accident situations , the witness will only have realised that an accident had occurred when they heard the crash , and looked round and saw the aftermath , although they will try and tell you that they actually saw the vehicles colliding . |
| 10 | It gained substance when Representative Susan Molinari , Republican for New York , related what she and her staff had experienced when they occupied the office before Orton . |
| 11 | The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality . |
| 12 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 13 | Her waterdetector — now lost — had twanged when they crossed the Spanish Fork city limits . |
| 14 | She made one last feeble attempt to avoid the escalation of physical craving between them , knowing she had lost when she heard the unusual huskiness of her own voice , and saw Rune 's eyes darken in immediate response . |
| 15 | Morgan 's interest in anthropology had begun when he noticed the systematic pattern created by the totality of the terms used to refer to relatives and kinsmen . |
| 16 | Her mother , Pamela Bootyman , said her daughter 's behaviour had changed when she reached the age of 12 or 13 . |