Example sentences of "when he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
3 | I was serving Mr Farraday morning coffee in the breakfast room when he had said to me : |
4 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
5 | When he had gone to him , the Prince had in fact at first turned the suggestion down . |
6 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |
7 | And when he had done with her , she could wipe him from her mind , obliterate him . |
8 | Therefore , he must stick to the same story and tell the same lie as when he had applied for his British passport . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He had had Havvie Blaine investigated when he had heard of Sally-Anne 's engagement to him , and her rejection of him had saved him , and her , a deal of pain and trouble . |
11 | Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know . |
12 | Her eyes were sparkling and her legs bustling when he had staggered into the incident room an hour late at nine o'clock : he had been so tired he had slept through the high-pitched beep of his alarm clock . |
13 | When he had kicked over the traces , after Cambridge — joined the City police as a flat-foot , instead of following his family 's military tradition — they had volunteered to come to London with him . |
14 | It had hurt almost unbearably earlier , when he had withdrawn from her to lie turned away from her once more , the shoulder he presented to her as eloquent a rejection as his disinclination to touch her . |
15 | When he had remained in his bed to at least 6.30am he was praised and given a big mug of chocolate . |
16 | When he had retired with their order and the drinks waiter had served them with lime daiquiris , Barney planted his elbows on the table and leaned towards Melissa . |
17 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
18 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
19 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Even now , when he had succeeded in attacking , this Triplane refused to be destroyed . |
24 | It was now seventeen years since the Countryside in 1970 Conference , when he had talked about ‘ the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms ’ . |
25 | And remembering Johnny 's face when he had talked of Dusty Miller , she knew that neither he nor his friends found the whole thing much of a joke , either . |
26 | When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men . |
27 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
28 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
29 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |
30 | — Anything unusual about his manner when he had left for work on the morning of the 24th ? — Not that she had noted . |