Example sentences of "when [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 32 | And I felt worse , as I stumbled away , remembering Gharr 's laughter when I 'd struck him . |
| 33 | When I 'd extracted my head from the carrying rope , Kāli untied the bale and started scooping up armloads of pine-needles and throwing them to the top of the pile . |
| 34 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 35 | I was upset , but when I 'd calmed down , I wondered if Roby was right . |
| 36 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 37 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 38 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 39 | Anyway , getting back to my sister , she seemed to expect me to side with her when she 'd been just the opposite with me when I 'd wanted to paint , and I 'm afraid harsh words were spoken all round . |
| 40 | ‘ Tell the despatcher we 've stopped and are going back , ’ he said , when I 'd relayed the messages . |
| 41 | Had I really meant it when I 'd written I would n't have any painkillers ? |
| 42 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 43 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 44 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 45 | But then when I 'd strengthened her up I said she 'd be alright for a few days . |
| 46 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 47 | I should have realized when I 'd taken Tracey 's book in . |
| 48 | It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office . |
| 49 | For a second I relaxed but another thought struck : Had I refixed the boards behind me when I 'd fled the turret during the storm ? |
| 50 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 51 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 52 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 53 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
| 55 | ‘ I said that when I 'd finished the Shaw book , I 'd disintegrate , ’ he told me . |
| 56 | When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet . |
| 57 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 58 | When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing . |
| 59 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 60 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |