Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan , a Cambridge graduate , had also been a candidate for the post when Peirson had been appointed in 1647 , but the Company , anxious to avoid any trouble and to be reconciled with the townspeople , had on both occasions chosen Stockport 's nominee . |
| 2 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 3 | With a round of state elections taking place on Nov. 8 , Salinas 's apparent acknowledgement of the electoral fraud issue stimulated rather than placated opposition protests ( as had been the case on those recent occasions when Salinas had been seen to intervene to remove victorious PRI candidates accused of gross electoral fraud — see pp. 38385 ; 38524 ; 38716 ; 38905 ; 39136 ) . |
| 4 | When Cassio has been attacked by Iago , apparently murdered , Othello lauds his master 's example : The murder scene , with its marvellously wrought language , a ceremony that Othello thinks of as a sacrifice , is the most deluded , most fictitious scene in Shakespeare — not a word in it that Othello says is true . |
| 5 | Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 6 | They had joined up together in ‘ 39 and , when Simon had been killed at Alamein , Bert had died with him in spirit . |
| 7 | The pride she had shown when Eva had been asked to speak at meetings when she was home on leave . |
| 8 | And Mike ; always so good to her , teasing her , making her feel special , as though he had tried to make up for her real father 's dying when she was a baby ; not wanting her to feel left out when Martin had been born . |
| 9 | Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built . |
| 10 | When Clementis had been hung for treason |
| 11 | Twelve months earlier , when Paris had been liberated , communist members of the Resistance in France had wanted to strike before the French army and de Gaulle arrived and thus present them with an accomplished fact . |
| 12 | When Daak had been brought to join them , Bernice had expected Ace to run to him ; instead , she just smiled crookedly and raised a hand in greeting . |
| 13 | When Roosevelt had been persuaded by the British , in July 1942 , to postpone a direct invasion of Western Europe and instead to prepare an invasion of North Africa , one of his conditions had been that Free France should be excluded . |
| 14 | She saw the water at a higher level than it had been when Henrietta had been lowered into it and the mouths of the two pipes were almost submerged . |
| 15 | She accompanies Lucie and her child to Paris during the Reign of Terror , when Darnay has been imprisoned , and forcibly prevents Madame Defarge from discovering their escape but at the cost of her own hearing ( she is permanently deafened by the accidental firing off of Mme Defarge 's pistol during their struggle ) , TTC i 4 et seq . |
| 16 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 17 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 18 | But Creggan was not interested right then in learning , all he wanted to know was what happened next when Minch had been hanging from the pole trap . |
| 19 | He loves you , ’ said Comfort , and Julia believed her as she had believed her all those years before when Comfort had been urging her to fall in love with him . |
| 20 | When Wendell had been interviewed , he had refused to say how many dollars the shindig was costing him but he admitted it was a lot . |
| 21 | The culprit was assumed to be the young woman whose charred body had been trapped by the flames ; she was identified as a feminist — funny , when PopCon had been giving money and moral support to feminist groups . |