Example sentences of "when he had [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Mick was peeling potatoes , carrots and onions , which he had bought when he had made an advance visit to Adrar the day before . |
| 2 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 3 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 4 | When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment . |
| 5 | Gray died tragically early from smallpox when he had published a second edition ; but willing hands carried on the work , and the 35th edition was published by Longman in 1973 . |
| 6 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 7 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 8 | The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter . |
| 9 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |