Example sentences of "when [noun sg] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When sentence had been passed he glanced at her and was sure he could see the trace of a smile on her lips . |
| 2 | Ruth never showed Rachaela anything — her art work , her homework or a book — but Rachaela gave her the use of the bookcase , overloaded now , and once or twice when money had been freer had bought Ruth books of fantastic art , Kay Nielsen , Vali Myers . |
| 3 | Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth . |
| 4 | In the final week of treatment , when remission had been achieved , the patient 's normal diet was discussed paying particular attention to any personally suspected good intolerances . |
| 5 | However , close examination of the external stonework , only possible when scaffolding had been erected , revealed the extent of necessary repairs had been underestimated , and the contract had to be extended to June 1991 . |
| 6 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 7 | When Topaz had been able to tear her gaze away from Andrew she had looked about her . |
| 8 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 9 | Ten years later , when penicillin had been established as an effective drug , Raistrick gave fresh attention to the therapeutic possibilities of antibiotics . |
| 10 | When Baby had been here , Dot remembered how she had yearned to be with him , amongst those quiet children so calm in their tidy beds . |
| 11 | Tim and Pistol were in a pub when Pistol had been made angry by the men in the pub . |
| 12 | On the rare occasions when sharp eyes had penetrated his facade , when complicity had been invited , he had fled in panic . |
| 13 | When land had been apportioned , each family built their own dwelling . |
| 14 | The Swiss experiment used an original concentration of 50mM of the sodium salt ; when equilibrium had been reached 18mM of ‘ fresh ’ octanoic acid salt had been produced . |
| 15 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |