Example sentences of "when [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 2 | When I had recovered from my immediate repugnance , I had to concede he was merely correct . |
| 3 | The outside door was always chained and , when I had rung from outside or inside the hostel , I would hear his shuffling , forward-leaning run , his muted ‘ Buenas . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps , when she had recovered from this encounter , he could suggest that they become engaged , albeit in an unacknowledged fashion as he could not afford a ring worthy of her . |
| 9 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 10 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 11 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 12 | Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know . |
| 13 | It had hurt almost unbearably earlier , when he had withdrawn from her to lie turned away from her once more , the shoulder he presented to her as eloquent a rejection as his disinclination to touch her . |
| 14 | When he had recovered from his ordeal , Ciparis was able to tell of what had happened — and he went on telling the story for the rest of his life , for he was given a free pardon , joined a travelling circus , and became something of a celebrity . |
| 15 | When he had recovered from his embarrassment , Alexei 's father had freed her — on the grounds that it was improper for a woman to be bought and sold like merchandise — and with Mei Ling 's consent had opted to marry her . |
| 16 | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way . |
| 17 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 18 | The antisemitism in Vienna made his appointment to a university professorship difficult , but as he had married when he had returned from Paris in 1886 he needed to make a living . |
| 19 | And complained that she had refused to let him in when he had returned from the wine bar having forgotten his key . |
| 20 | When he had woken from a faint sleep on the ice cold floor of the cell , Holly had known that the lice had found him . |