Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 2 | There was just a touch of sarcasm in her voice , which cut like a razor , and she knew she 'd drawn blood when he stared coldly back at her , the smile fading from his face . |
| 3 | She 'd started university when she was seventeen years old . |
| 4 | Perhaps I could tell Norman he was a godson with whom I 'd lost touch when his real mother died ? |
| 5 | ‘ You should 've told Finn when you saw him chewing , ’ said Betty . |
| 6 | I know , but we should n't have to borrow mother when I had to get back , to borrow my wages off Jes to get her tax for her car which left us with no money ! |
| 7 | Does he understand that planning permission was initially gained , with difficulty , for the building of motorways through areas of outstanding natural beauty and great environmental sensitivity , so many people would not be keen to see developers spending hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of pounds fighting in a long succession of inquiries so that they can build not just motorway service areas — possibly excluding the disabled and lorries — but hotels and other facilities that would never have received permission when the original planning consent was granted ? |
| 8 | Without him , we would n't have won promotion when we did , and he was the last player I wanted to lose . |
| 9 | This might have made sense when all Council decisions that mattered were passed on the basis of unanimity . |
| 10 | ‘ You might have drowned swimming when you 're drunk , ’ he scolded . |
| 11 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 12 | I think I 'm going to have I will have gained weight when |
| 13 | ‘ It would have caused offence when I chose to withdraw . ’ |
| 14 | One thing must be remembered about their experience as part of a group : they would all have started work when there were large numbers of young girls in the composing-room , whose atmosphere would have reflected this , differing from that of the men 's composing-room where the spread of ages was much greater . |
| 15 | We gon na have to get tickets when we get there ? |
| 16 | The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " . |
| 17 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 18 | When her call came through , however , and she picked up the phone and said , ‘ Hello , ’ she realised that she would n't have to ask Lubor when Ven was coming back — because she already knew . |
| 19 | Some misunderstanding arises about the overlap during the afternoon period , because within this period one group of staff will have to take lunch when the afternoon shift arrive on duty and the others to take tea before the early shift goes off duty . |
| 20 | If you are not a designated area , then you have to go through the due process of Court Orders and notices and move out in twenty eight days or something , you know , it 's a long , expensive process , which does not have to take place when a district is designated . |
| 21 | If you do want to only mix flowers by correct season , you will have to take care when combining large and little flowers , such as daffodils and snowdrops , as the size difference seems even more pronounced once the flowers have been pressed flat . |
| 22 | There had been suggestions that Senna 's car may have lost downforce when running behind the Williams but the video clearly shows that he was n't close enough . |
| 23 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 24 | He was alleged to have breached confidentiality when he released details of an incident involving an elderly , dying man . |
| 25 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 26 | In the south of the country , four immigrants and an Italian were killed near Naples in late April in a gun battle believed to have taken place when local drug dealers attempted to eliminate competition from a group of illegal African immigrants . |
| 27 | Andrew Lamb , prosecuting , asked if it was possible for the explosion to have taken place when someone opened the front door of the house while smoking a cigarette . |
| 28 | The Iraqi plane was one of four to cross the parallel that day ; the first two had flown north when challenged , but the second two ( one of which escaped ) had turned to confront the US fighters , in what US officials considered a deliberate attempt to test the resolve of the allies — the USA , the United Kingdom and France — in policing the " no-fly zone " established in August [ see pp. 39068-69 ] . |
| 29 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 30 | Frame 's mother had committed suicide when he was nine , the court heard . |