Example sentences of "[noun sg] when he [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
| 2 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was serving Mr Farraday morning coffee in the breakfast room when he had said to me : |
| 7 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 8 | Ryan got the property at half the asking price , and the contracts were signed by proxy when he had returned to America . |
| 9 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 10 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
| 11 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 12 | — Anything unusual about his manner when he had left for work on the morning of the 24th ? — Not that she had noted . |
| 13 | We were wrong to accuse Cliftonville of not appealing on Joe 's behalf when he got suspended until the end of the season . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 16 | It was a boiling hot morning , he had three other appointments before lunch , and his head ached dully from the excess of Jack Daniels he had drunk the night before with the child 's father , who had been beside himself with rage when he had arrived at the Presbytery . |
| 17 | His friend Max Jacob was just about to be received into the Catholic church when he became entangled in the affairs of Modi and Beatrice . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the end of one debate there was nothing left of either Fascism or Communism when he had finished with them . |
| 20 | He had got Sir Geoffrey 's note when he 'd looked into his own office at lunchtime . |
| 21 | And remembering Johnny 's face when he had talked of Dusty Miller , she knew that neither he nor his friends found the whole thing much of a joke , either . |