Example sentences of "and when they have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself .
2 Kalchu explained that every hunt begins like this : the dogs flush out the forest — the inaccessible chasms and the narrow hidden valleys — and when they 've found a boar , they 're trained to chase it downhill only .
3 About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan .
4 They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan .
5 and you sort of fill up the battery , and then you can draw it off , but the battery itself is n't making electricity it 's just storing cells , like the little cells in that , the cells you get in your normal little batteries , and when they 've finished making it you chuck 'em away .
6 ‘ Well , they find something to click at and when they 've clicked at it they do n't look at it any more but move on and click at something else . ’
7 And when they 've got a sell-out crowd singing along , you wonder if they might be right .
8 Pass it around and when they 've read it initial it and pass it pass on .
9 I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down .
10 And when they 'd separated after the cash had run out , his mother had coped ; Stuart 's father had gone abroad , eventually they 'd lost touch .
11 And when they 'd finished milking at , they 'd usually start milking about half past four in the morning , some of them used to go delivering milk and then they used to go leading .
12 And when they 'd finished gurgling and sniggering at teach other , he went on .
13 Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face .
14 But after the first explorations and when they had absorbed the impact of the delight of the situation , the girl began to be restless .
15 Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise .
16 The men went into the little cabin and when they had eaten they thanked Babushka and went off to sleep .
17 All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching .
18 So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying .
19 And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child .
20 And when they had reached the place where the mine widened
21 Sadly , they turned to leave , and when they had gone , Nancy fell to the ground in a storm of tears .
22 And when they had drunk their coffee it was Sara who broke the spell .
23 On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them .
24 And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh .
25 They just chomped , and when they had finished , the podgy leader rose and quietly asked McGurk if there was somewhere they could talk to him in private .
26 During these initial months Blake was intensively interrogated by MI6 and when they had finished in November 1961 the question arose as to where Blake was to serve his sentence .
27 They both ate hungrily , and when they had finished , and were sipping their cafés noirs , and the tiny glasses of wonderful rough marc de bourgogne , Isobel leaned back with a smile .
28 First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ?
29 And when they had dined , the remainder was divided among them to carry home to their families . ’
30 She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side .
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