Example sentences of "[noun] had be when " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 2 | He was older now than Mozart had been when he died . |
| 3 | She remembered how disagreeable Mary had been when she first arrived . |
| 4 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 5 | Some Turks ruefully wondered where all the police had been when the neo-Nazis were gathering . |
| 6 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |