Example sentences of "that when he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 2 | Then he executed a half-somersault and twisted so that when he had stabilised he was level with Rostov , but inverted . |
| 3 | She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did except that when he had given two low bows she did ‘ two quick bobs ’ . |
| 4 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 5 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 6 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 7 | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way . |
| 8 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |
| 9 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 10 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 11 | You know , there 's a lot of symbolism that really has been lost , people do n't think about in the wedding service , but is underlying , you know , until fa fairly recently a lot of people promised to obey , erm , look at Prince Andrew and that when he got married , you know , erm , the Duchess of York actually promised to obey him |
| 12 | Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ? |
| 13 | May I therefore pass on to the Prime Minister the good wishes of all my constituents for his efforts at Maastricht and hope that when he has finished there he will come up to Derbyshire and tell us all about it ? |
| 14 | printer so that when he 's hived off he 's got some |
| 15 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |