Example sentences of "when he have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was true , she felt , for in the heat of the moment a voice was warning her that he was only moved by desire now because she had n't fallen at his feet when he had followed her to London .
2 The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises .
3 Only when he had asked her about Katherine had he realized that something was seriously amiss .
4 He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity .
5 He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised .
6 The court heard that his daughter Deborah Anderson had last seen him alive when he had visited her on December 22 .
7 Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States .
8 On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga .
9 Cliff had a magnificent physique , was always commanding in the air and possessed a fearsome shot — and Palace fans knew his quality from previous encounters , when he had opposed us for Watford and Northampton .
10 When he had seated her in his rocking chair and put a glass of dark liquid in her hand , he moved her lamp and his single candle so that her face was illumined .
11 At one point in Vikram Seth 's novel in verse The Golden Gate ( Faber , 1986 ) , the author interrupts the narrative to tell us that his idea for the book had not been well received when he had mentioned it to a publisher :
12 When he had left her with a tiny baby , she had hardened her heart somehow .
13 He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions .
14 When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action .
15 Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement .
16 She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms .
17 Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph .
18 It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot .
19 His face wore that concentrated look she had grown used to , as if everything he did was the focus of all his energies — like the look when he 'd taken her in his arms and made his kiss seem the still point of the entire universe .
20 When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again .
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