Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 2 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 3 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 4 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 5 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 7 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 8 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 9 | They could n't remember a time when they had been without it . |
| 10 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 11 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 12 | That was when he had been in the SAS . |
| 13 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 14 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 15 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |