Example sentences of "when he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when he had left off playing I would go and sit by him , and a little later we would all lead the good old man to his cottage . |
| 32 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 33 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 34 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 35 | When he had got to the hotel , he had looked for Carver , but to no avail . |
| 36 | He had to think of her as Miss Crosbie so he would n't again make the mistake that had aroused his mother 's anger when he had spoken of her as Marion . |
| 37 | When he had spoken to Zoser something of this had come across , perhaps not consciously but perhaps not completely unconsciously either . |
| 38 | He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council . |
| 39 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 40 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 41 | The first thing he had done when he had come into the apartment had been to turn off the heating system , and then he had opened the window in his bedroom and the window in the sparsely furnished living room . |
| 42 | An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors . |
| 43 | Vasilissa went a little farther , and a second horseman passed ; his horse and saddle were red , and his clothes , and even his reins ; when he had passed by , the sun rose . |
| 44 | Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another . |
| 45 | Since then , since the whole-hearted and selfless manner in which she had helped him , and had comforted him after Effie 's death — he remembered her saying gently to him when he had railed against Fate and his own incompetence , ‘ Do n't , Dr Neil , do n't . |
| 46 | Her large eyes were fixed on him , and she wished that she could go away and leave him in peace when he had laboured for so long and so hard . |
| 47 | She had told him lies about where Bella 's money was hidden , pretended to be fascinated when he had lied to her about spending the day with his father : ‘ We played golf together , then he took me for a ride in the new car . |
| 48 | Once when he had remonstrated at her sluttishness she had shrugged : |
| 49 | At the end of one debate there was nothing left of either Fascism or Communism when he had finished with them . |
| 50 | When he had finished with Maurin his great dark eyes fixed on Joseph . |
| 51 | When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him . |
| 52 | She recalled her first meeting with Michael Stein , when he had admitted to possessing drugs in the Far East . |
| 53 | Nigel could be quite persistent when he had thought of something to make Gina miserable . |
| 54 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 55 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 56 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 57 | When he had looked at her so intently , Vitor d'Arcos had been curious about an intruder , that was all . |
| 58 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 59 | Tom Tedder remembered one morning , four years back , when he had taken into class a picture he had painted , and rather liked — a picture of Florence from Fiesole . |
| 60 | Only when he had returned to his own office did it occur to him to flick through his passport 's pages . |