Example sentences of "when i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 2 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 3 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
| 4 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 5 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |
| 6 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 7 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 8 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 9 | And when I had it customized , I could boast I was wearing something that was made-to-measure — twice . |
| 10 | When I had started to examine pensions , many in the industry were opposed to any change in SERPS and almost everyone was opposed to personal pensions . |
| 11 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 12 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 13 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 14 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 15 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 16 | When I had run out of paper , I bowed to the boys and departed . |
| 17 | When I had finished signing , I went to the bar . |
| 18 | My worst moment came when I had to change film . |
| 19 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 20 | When I had a small printing business in Stornoway several of my employees were crofters . |
| 21 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 22 | When I had told my story to the minister , he introduced me to Ivan Feigelson ( known to his friends as Ika ) , a young medical student of Russian emigré parentage . |
| 23 | That was all I needed … just when I had found a little peace at last . |
| 24 | It was one of the medical records clerks who first mentioned the sponsored walk to me when I had visited the hospital to give a lecture to some of the nursing staff shortly after I had started my maternity leave . |
| 25 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 26 | The outside door was always chained and , when I had rung from outside or inside the hostel , I would hear his shuffling , forward-leaning run , his muted ‘ Buenas . ’ |
| 27 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 28 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 29 | Other voices could be heard , of course , but they were attended to only later — when I had returned to Oxfordshire as a headmaster . |
| 30 | He now ate what I cooked , and went for a drive when I had time . |