Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 2 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 3 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 4 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 5 | He had briefly been in the Army but had left when it became clear that he would not get commissioned . |