Example sentences of "when he have first [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door . |
| 2 | Bobby Anscombe , who had reacted badly when he had first heard of the deaf-aid idea , was forced to admit at the end that it might work . |
| 3 | When he had first arrived at the then strange , adult world of Carewscourt , he had been delighted to find another boy of his own age living on the estate . |
| 4 | He felt comfortable now watching the black faces on the pavement , screwed up against the drizzle , but remembered his resentment when he had first learned of his posting . |
| 5 | Now that he was a man he was no more capable of working unsupervised than when he had first come to the farm at the age of twelve . |
| 6 | He remembered how Minch had spoken to him like this when he had first come to the Cages . |
| 7 | When he had first come to Maythorpe House as an ignorant thirteen-year-old who had never before lived in anything grander than a tiny gardener 's cottage , he had felt awed and frightened , and unable to grasp that this huge place was now his home . |
| 8 | When he had first come to Egypt Garvin had insisted that he stay with an Arab family perfecting his Arabic . |
| 9 | She 'd sensed something when he 'd first stood in the garden with the children ; she 'd sensed it when she 'd opened the hall door to him . |