Example sentences of "had [verb] when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris had exclaimed when she heard that . |
| 2 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 3 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 4 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 5 | In September 1991 , Bernhard flew his small aircraft along , and videoed , the exact route and at the same altitude that W1048 had flown when she attacked the Tirpitz in 1942 . |
| 6 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 7 | It was partly rotten , and had broken when he struck with it , but it was sound enough and heavy enough to stun . |
| 8 | That was the message Molly had received when she had come down the stairs and left her husband at the dinner table . |
| 9 | Her initial insane reaction to the loss had eased when she confronted the reality of the other woman and the new tears played an essential part in her healing . |
| 10 | The rain had stopped when I emerged from the subway exit at Fernhill . |
| 11 | Phoebe , on the other hand , suddenly could not remember what false name she had given when she made the appointment . |
| 12 | Darkness had fallen when we reached the beaches , having travelled over ground in places very familiar . |
| 13 | The Easoe scientists said that the ozone loss was more serious than they had expected when they embarked on the £14 million experiment in late 1991 . |
| 14 | She remembered how the temperature in the restaurant had dropped when she had made her unwitting gaffe . |
| 15 | He had been too young to read the note but he could still remember how that table had looked when he came in , its top at the time the height of his own shoulder . |
| 16 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 17 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 18 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to listen when she started to talk . |
| 20 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 21 | It was what their parents had done when they had guests . |
| 22 | Apart from sniffing , as Hazel and Cowslip had done when they met , formal gestures — except between mating rabbits — were unknown to Hazel and his companions . |
| 23 | ‘ Take care , ’ said Rufus , and not looking back any more than he had done when they returned from the cemetery , drove off round the town he had got to know so well , over the Stour bridge , into Essex , heading for Halstead and Dunmow and Ongar and London . |
| 24 | Hodge and those around him believed Syngman Rhee should be encouraged and believed he could be controlled ; they were later to regret having aided Rhee 's ambitions to the extent that they had done when they found themselves exposed to Rhee 's mordant censure . |
| 25 | This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea . |
| 26 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 27 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 28 | Just as her mother had done when she 'd arrived in Athens so many years before . |
| 29 | Annabel did let slip that the first thing she had done when she packed up tennis as a career was to lose weight . |
| 30 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |