Example sentences of "when [pers pn] have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 2 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 3 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 4 | To love when you have been betrayed in love all your life . |
| 5 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 6 | Suddenly , when she had been lost to everything , alarm bells went off again as the sound of someone knocking on her bedroom door penetrated her thoughts . |
| 7 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 8 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 9 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 10 | It went back to her childhood when she had been teased by her schoolmates about her stammer . |
| 11 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 12 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 13 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 14 | When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job . |
| 15 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 16 | But when they had been greeted with expressions of total derision and distaste , I realized that she was still not ready to come to terms with full womanly depth of her unacknowledged feelings . |
| 17 | However , within each word order condition subjects recalled more words from the passage when they had been informed of its title . |
| 18 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 19 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 20 | Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour . |
| 21 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 22 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 23 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 24 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 25 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 26 | Winter smogs are essentially polluted fogs , so there have been a number of occasions when they have been seeded with dry ice or silver iodide at certain airports so as to allow aircraft to land safely . |
| 27 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 28 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |
| 29 | Justice must be seen to be done , however , and when it had been seen to be done , the miscreants were cheered by a crowd assembled outside the court . |
| 30 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |