Example sentences of "when [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wait for New Year , when everyone 's finished partying . |
| 2 | I 'm terrified we might see Khan or Greenslade on a day when everyone has decided to follow Mother Walsh 's directions about placing the feet on the ground without damaging the old insect life . |
| 3 | Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ? |
| 4 | ‘ We all know when someone has died , it is perfectly obvious . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Having been a serving officer I know when someone 's had a drink . |
| 6 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 7 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 8 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
| 9 | Before we could say anything , she said in a loud voice , ‘ If God had put my eyes beneath my mouth , I would know when I 'd dropped something , would n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | Thoroughly annoyed me because I 'd er every year when I 'd paid my tax I 'd pay my er national insurance and as far I 'm concerned that should 've entitled me . |
| 11 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 12 | ‘ The characters when I 'd started out were in my head , but by then they 'd become real actors . |
| 13 | Especially not when I 'd left my heart with this fantastic woman up in London . ’ |
| 14 | One thing I distinctly remember about watching that kestrel hover happened on a clear blue day when I 'd managed to position myself practically underneath the bird . |
| 15 | Like yesterday , when I 'd had my hair cut , he did say it looked a mess before ! |
| 16 | ‘ You 're flesh and blood , warm and yielding , bursting into my life at a time when I 'd sworn to give women a wide berth , enticing me with your large eyes and your candour , your raven hair and your loyalty … ’ |
| 17 | And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about . |
| 18 | At three o'clock , when I had scanned every crack in the ridge , every curve of every dune , every patch of colour on the plain , I looked down and saw an ant , crawling into the wind . |
| 19 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 20 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 21 | The second was when I had mistaken a stag beetle for a cockroach . |
| 22 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 23 | If I had , I should also have had the sense to know when I had achieved it , and therefore when to start eating normally again . |
| 24 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 25 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 26 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 27 | I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field . |
| 28 | Came the sad morning when I had to say goodbye to the crimson walls , white statues , giant mirrors and piped music of O'Brien 's Hotel . |
| 29 | To my surprise , she sat quietly all through it , until the important moment when I had to say my Brownie Promise . |
| 30 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |