Example sentences of "[noun] when it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 3 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |
| 4 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
| 5 | During his time with the company started the first CPM 7000 interswitch press in the country and Preston workmates were not sure whether it was a splash of fat or a tear on 's cheek when it had to be replaced by the new Palladin 1600 . |
| 6 | He thought of something he had read once about Fielding , who had heard the watermen at Rotherhithe mocking his body when it had grown ugly with the dropsy . |
| 7 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 8 | Then she would find her pride and not indulge in this kind of behaviour when it had no future . |
| 9 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 12 | Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 . |
| 13 | At one time , painting the inside of cold water cisterns with bituminous paint was the answer when it had corroded , but this is no longer recommended . |
| 14 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 15 | The unanimous decision found the UK in breach of Article 10 guaranteeing freedom of expression when it had banned the Observer , Guardian , and Sunday Times newspapers from printing extracts from the book after it was published in the United States in July 1987 . |
| 16 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 17 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 18 | Nourse LJ also considered it was arguable that the plaintiff could not seek to rely on the literal clauses of the agreement when it had known that the disclosure letter was incomplete as to do so would be dishonest . |
| 19 | The sound was a bit like an underground train at a distance , and there was a feeling of complete emptiness when it had gone . |
| 20 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 21 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |