Example sentences of "when [pers pn] have been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 2 | When I had been in the attic long enough to have tidied and cleaned the cupboards , and put a shine on the ancient chest of drawers and wardrobe , I settled to knit Jean-Claude sweaters and socks . |
| 3 | When I have been in the Chamber , he has raised the matter regularly with Mr. Speaker . |
| 4 | When you 've been with the same bank since you were thirteen , you somehow feel they will grow up with you . |
| 5 | They 're all trainees when you 've been in the company ten years , twenty years you can still be a trainee learning something new . |
| 6 | Yes but when you 've been , when you 've been in the work as I have over many years with doctors , I was a mental welfare officer so I mean I know er , you know , you can be fobbed off . |
| 7 | when you have been through the list ask the LH to read all the words that you have in the " same " column , one after another , to see if they really are the same . |
| 8 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 9 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 10 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 11 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 12 | when she 's been at the school gate , she comes |
| 13 | Be more ready to say sorry ; she will apologize when she 's been in the wrong . |
| 14 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 15 | Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent . |
| 16 | It 'll put us when we 've been in the majority er in manual workers in local authorities . |
| 17 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 18 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 19 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 20 | They 'd let him resign , just when they 'd been on the point of sacking him . |
| 21 | When they 'd been in The Lobster Pot , and afterwards , there had been a tremendous rapport between them . |
| 22 | And later , when he had been in the water , he had seen how she stood behind her husband , watching him , her eyes curious , lingering on his naked chest . |
| 23 | He had never rested with such absolute confidence in the judgement of any other , excepting once for that brief while in his childhood , when he had been in the care of Master Harry . |
| 24 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |