Example sentences of "had [verb] when [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 3 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 4 | Jean-Paul thought of what their mother had said when he had his farewell interview with his brother . |
| 5 | The clouds had thickened and the moon had gone when I left her house and made my way cautiously down the slippery brick path . |
| 6 | Its owner , Toni Hobbs only realised what had happened when she saw its picture on Central News . |
| 7 | She had finished when she heard his signal , a yell he had perfected to sound like a car hooting . |