Example sentences of "when she have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation .
2 On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him .
3 However , Liz had laughed like a drain when she had commented on how small it sounded .
4 Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation .
5 Acting as quickly as when she had gone to ground after Nicandra 's Nettie , she took his hand , lightly as a tame bird arriving to perch on a finger ; with a touching confidence in his response , she turned her little monkey 's face up to him , dropped the hand she had touched and , without a backward look led the way to the Ballroom .
6 Her fingers closed round the small bottle of sleeping tablets Dana had been prescribed when she had stayed with Claudia after a bout of flu .
7 The men within would then be fired upon through holes in the roof , picked off like pigeons in a cote , Isabel had thought when she had ridden through it earlier .
8 Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them .
9 Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten .
10 Nevertheless , she still weighed more than when she had floated in Witwaterstrand .
11 He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton .
12 She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection .
13 But the smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown when she had to go into dinner herself — and sit next to her husband .
14 With a faint , elusive smile , she recalled a similar sort of feeling when she had yearned after the paperboy when she 'd been fourteen .
15 She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash .
16 When she had written to Mark Heathwood and to George Wilson , asking whether he had managed to find out whether Raffaella had any chance of getting permission to live in England , Julia pulled a new sheet of writing paper towards her and wrote a chatty , cheerful letter to her mother .
17 Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties .
18 ‘ He did explain that to us quite often , when she had fallen in love with Europe and the prince proposed , she saw herself in Rome ; the Eternal City , it was always that to her .
19 And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole .
20 Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast .
21 Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise .
22 Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough .
23 Without any warning , she found herself remembering how Julius 's body had felt when she had cannoned into it , just minutes ago .
24 Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in .
25 Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed .
26 ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation .
27 When she had graduated from the School of Fashion she had sold her entire degree collection to Lady Jane , a small but exclusive West End boutique , who had greeted her designs with such enthusiasm that she had believed the world was her oyster and everything was about to happen for her .
28 When she had arrived from France she was supposed to contact friends of her family , but the bag which had contained their address had been lost or stolen .
29 She had become a golf fan when she had learned of my job and took a highly personal interest in Jack 's performances .
30 He quotes a young Pakistani woman recalling her schooldays , when she had to change for swimming and showers : ‘ I was surprised at the English girls who simply used to stand there and change .
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