Example sentences of "be [adj] when [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov had been asleep when she came home . |
| 2 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 3 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 4 | Most women had tried to become pregnant for two or three years , and most ( 412 , 82% ) had never been pregnant when they entered the study . |
| 5 | The blood had stopped , had been dry when she woke up . |
| 6 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 7 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 8 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 9 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 10 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 11 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 12 | He 'd been right when he 'd said she was shrewish , though she 'd never suffered from the malady before . |
| 13 | He had been right when he 'd said there was no future — because the past would always exist . |
| 14 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 15 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 16 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 17 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 18 | And again there was the quiver of amusement , because had Dierdriu ever been discreet when she went to a lover 's bed ? |
| 19 | The off-season hotel had been empty when she arrived . |
| 20 | Nocenzi had been conscious when he 'd seen him . |
| 21 | Matthew had been horrified when she had suggested stripping the dark panelling in the hall to its original natural pine colour and waxing it . |
| 22 | Stockton vet Jackie Paterson , who clambered into the drain and injected the foal with sedatives , said it had been petrified when she had gone down . |
| 23 | He had certainly not been confident when he arrived in Augusta and in the end his suspicions about his form were confirmed . |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been terrible when she told you about Nicola 's affair with Parkin . |
| 25 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 26 | And you must understand : to appreciate the pessimism I feel today you would need to have been present when I formed the optimism. , |
| 27 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 28 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 29 | Irina had been brisk when she called with the news and told him to telephone Rakovsky at his hotel . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’ |