Example sentences of "[vb past] be when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 2 | As she listened to Amsterdam she became more sure by the minute that Timothy was n't quite the same as he 'd been when he had left the house that morning . |
| 3 | Sometimes he was angry as he 'd been when they had fought . |
| 4 | As she 'd been when Han had died . |
| 5 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 6 | Later , Lucien realised just how fortunate he 'd been when Mandru 's agent had made a bid for him at Por Tanssie . |
| 7 | The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about . |
| 8 | What I meant was when I said five proposals |
| 9 | Well no , er we , no we did n't , the only cattle we saw was when they were on the train , cos I do n't remember they , they seemed to . |
| 10 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 11 | Tears again , she felt like the child she had been when her father gave wild stinging slaps to her legs by way of welcome after she 'd run away from home . |
| 12 | He also did what any American college president is expected to do — he raised money , leaving the college on a sounder footing , both financially and academically , than it had been when he took office . |
| 13 | Increasingly referred to by its citizens as ‘ the Zone ’ , as it had been when it was merely the Soviet occupation zone , it has achieved no genuine separate identity or legitimacy . |
| 14 | In the pain there was both forgetfulness and satisfaction , just as there had been when Maggie was born . |
| 15 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 16 | Odd-Knut asked what time it had been when Kjell-Arne heard the noise . |
| 17 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 18 | She never had been when he was ill ; that was one of the things he disliked about her — unwomanly , he called it . |
| 19 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 20 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 21 | The significant features of Arazi 's victory over Supermec and River Majesty were that the knee operation carried out last November appeared to have no effects and , this time , the colt was not racing on medication , as he had been when winning the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile . |
| 22 | He was older now than Mozart had been when he died . |
| 23 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 24 | On 27 July Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons ( his first had been when my father was head boy at Thame ) , and after the summer the country accelerated into a general-election campaign . |
| 25 | The demesne plantation was now very much smaller than it had been when Alec was a boy . |
| 26 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 27 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 28 | She was no longer the girl she had been when they had first come to live at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 29 | That had been when he had invited Nathan to Hampstead to meet his wife and family , and ever since Nathan had adored Dinah Arkwright uncritically ; she could do no wrong in his eyes . |
| 30 | That had been when he was made known to Robert Asshe , Dinah 's father , heir of a long line of actors . |