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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 When everyone had gathered in the garden , Sergeant joined them and said , ‘ Welcome , everyone ! ’
2 It was the magical hour after the lunch shift , when everyone had gone away and there was no sound louder than the hoover .
3 Louise said , as they were re-arranging the drawing room when everyone had gone .
4 After the service , when everyone had gone to the reception at his father 's house , Duncan had returned to the fresh brown earth mound and prayed for his grandfather 's soul .
5 I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes .
6 When everyone had finished the plates were cleared and Clare produced a big chocolate cake with two candles , sending the children wild with excitement .
7 " We 've a lot of work to do tonight , " said the Collector when everyone had assembled in the hall .
8 ‘ Hey , ’ said Luke , when everyone had ordered .
9 Eve was so strange , she could make up tales and then , when everyone had got interested , she would say , ‘ Fooled you ’ .
10 After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office .
11 But , when everyone 's gone when it 's just us three !
12 They start again when the time comes , when alliances have shifted , when everyone has stored enough ammunition to have another go , when race hatreds revive under the guise of class wars begin anew as ethnic strife .
13 Only when everyone has received communion , begin the hymn .
14 When everyone has found their places he stands by the microphone at the top table , hammers on the table with a gavel , and announces loudly , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , Pray SILENCE for the Reverend John Smith , who will now say grace . ’
15 I see nothing wrong in competition at an early age because it prepares you for later life when everyone has to face it .
16 To commit yourself when everyone has let you down .
17 When I 'd done with Shepard and the wasp , Shadwell put his arm round me .
18 He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations .
19 I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested .
20 I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun .
21 Even so , it set up a security precaution that had occurred to me when I 'd seen the cylinder .
22 when I 'd seen there was a problem there , then I just
23 When I 'd asked Chola what the ceremony was for she 'd said she did n't know : they 'd always done it .
24 After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence .
25 The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away .
26 Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? "
27 I found that out when I 'd pressed the bell and no one came .
28 When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well .
29 Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ?
30 I 'd planned to go back to Australia when I 'd made enough .
  Next page