Example sentences of "had be [adj] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 2 | If fierce enforcement powers had been available when basic accounting standards were being evolved , compliance with standards might have been more uniform , but the standard of financial reporting would not necessarily have been improved . |
| 3 | She says that she wishes the chair had been available when Paul was younger . |
| 4 | If newspapers had been available when marauding hordes from all over the continent were ravaging our land , the people who had managed to settle in one spot for three or four generations would be complaining bitterly that the Angles , Saxons , Jutes , Danes , Romans , Vikings , etc were overrunning the traditions of the island . |
| 5 | The blood had stopped , had been dry when she woke up . |
| 6 | The previous year when she finished fifth she discovered she had been pregnant when taking part . |
| 7 | I remember one Monday morning , just after we went into the Boys ' School , he came into Standard One and brought with him , from our class , Jim Weeks , who had been absent when the registers were called . |
| 8 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 9 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 10 | The man chosen to be the ‘ Charter Mayor ’ was Mr. James Clements , who had been the Chairman of the Brentford District Council in 1903 , and as such had been present when King Edward VII had opened the new Kew Bridge . |
| 11 | She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist . |
| 12 | It would be interesting to learn who had been present when the fastidious Miss Easterbrook had had her accident with the tea . |
| 13 | neural crest … mothers who had been present when |
| 14 | Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available . |
| 15 | Jerrome 's ( 1981 ) work on older women 's friendships indicates that women 's relationships with their sisters seem to be intensified in later life , even for people whose relationships had been poor when they were younger . |
| 16 | If her cheeks had been hot when he arrived , they were on fire now . |
| 17 | The threatening cloud of gloom that had been pea-sized when they 'd set out for Host Street grew to storm proportions . |
| 18 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 19 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 20 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 21 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 22 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 23 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 24 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 25 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 26 | He had been right when he 'd said there was no future — because the past would always exist . |
| 27 | He had been rash when he should have been circumspect . |
| 28 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 29 | Marie had been pleased when Madge had said this : it backed up her own opinion of Simon , that he was a genuine person and kind . |
| 30 | It is no wonder that ordinary men and women throughout the country wish that Guy Fawkes had been successful when they consider the punishment that this House has levelled at ordinary men and women in a state of poverty . |