Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope Fitzgerald 's prose is as clear as glass , and you realise how much she has n't said only when you stop laughing . |
| 2 | This strong , lengthy colt won the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot in June and has twice run well when the soft going was against him . |
| 3 | The boy is too young to be locked up , but has persistantly run away when granted bail . |
| 4 | Leith realised she 'd better concentrate hard when she heard Rosemary 's father on the other end . |
| 5 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 6 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 7 | If they had not got there when they did , the child would be dead . ’ |
| 8 | The last arrow slit had just flashed past when a large shadow loomed on the wall in front of her . |
| 9 | Travelling strongly for much of the way , Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight . |
| 10 | Paper seller Gerard O'Hare , 18 , had just got home when two members of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the house with guns blazing . |
| 11 | So he had probably left exactly when he meant to leave , intending to attack Terry Place but being killed himself . |
| 12 | Then she thought of the Brownie Promise and the Brownie Law and the Brownie Motto , all of which she knew by heart and had often said aloud when riding along the country lanes , so that she would be able to say them if the wonderful day should come for her to join a Brownie Pack . |
| 13 | She had n't gone far when she heard Nick wailing behind her , ‘ Carrie , wait for me , wait … ’ |
| 14 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 15 | They had n't gone far when at the side of the road they saw a small boy . |
| 16 | She had n't gone far when Alain joined her , and he simply matched his pace to suit her own , saying nothing at all . |
| 17 | It was as though she had died again , only it was worse , and he felt guilty that he had n't wept properly when she 'd really died . |
| 18 | Debbie , 23 , of Blisworth Street , said : ‘ If I had n't ran away when I saw the balls of fire coming towards us it might have been much worse . |
| 19 | Bob , 39 , said : ‘ Robert would have been a goner if I had n't got there when I did . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll say you were in a temper , and it had n't changed any when you were back in the office . |
| 21 | It was the only thing she 'd been wearing that had n't come away when they undressed . |