Example sentences of "when [pron] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | When I 'd done with Shepard and the wasp , Shadwell put his arm round me . |
2 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
3 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
4 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
5 | Even so , it set up a security precaution that had occurred to me when I 'd seen the cylinder . |
6 | when I 'd seen there was a problem there , then I just |
7 | When I 'd asked Chola what the ceremony was for she 'd said she did n't know : they 'd always done it . |
8 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
9 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
10 | Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? " |
11 | I found that out when I 'd pressed the bell and no one came . |
12 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
13 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
14 | I 'd planned to go back to Australia when I 'd made enough . |
15 | 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 ! |
16 | And I felt worse , as I stumbled away , remembering Gharr 's laughter when I 'd struck him . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I was upset , but when I 'd calmed down , I wondered if Roby was right . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ Tell the despatcher we 've stopped and are going back , ’ he said , when I 'd relayed the messages . |
25 | Had I really meant it when I 'd written I would n't have any painkillers ? |
26 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | But then when I 'd strengthened her up I said she 'd be alright for a few days . |
30 | 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 . |