Example sentences of "they had be when " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Paul came home happy , his blue eyes brilliant as they had been when they first met ; full of his new employment , the prospect of having the second book read , the kindness of the Professor in going to visit Mr Lamprey himself . |
| 2 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 3 | We cut our way through these and , following our python-hunters , who now seemed considerably less enthusiastic about the venture than they had been when they first suggested it , we slid down coconut ropes to the sinkhole floor and to the forbidding cobwebbed entrances which extended from its walls . |
| 4 | He remembered how silent they had been when the great rat appeared . |
| 5 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 6 | His eyes grew dark , as they had been when Caroline had first seen him from the catwalk . |
| 7 | But customers were no longer quite as wide-eyed as they had been when first faced by all this merchandise . |