Example sentences of "when she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similarly Julian was nor afraid to put her own words and reflections onto the lips of Christ when she wrote her book . |
| 32 | Even Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) suggests this when she wrote : |
| 33 | Virginia Woolf defined it inimitably when she wrote that ‘ for pages at a time he writes that terse springy prose which is the natural speech of a school of writers trained to the business of moving a large company briskly from one incident to another over the solid earth ’ . |
| 34 | Virginia Woolf stressed the difference between contemporary and historical detail when she wrote : |
| 35 | When she wrote Catherine 's name she started to cry , but the thought of how ludicrous it would be , how corny , if a tear got on the note and smudged the biro , stopped her . |
| 36 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 37 | By contrast , when she wrote the novel versions of Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( ‘ ghastly title — it was a television title ’ ) , her characters had already been embodied , by other people . |
| 38 | Maureen told Joe about it when she wrote and he wrote back that he agreed with Chris . |
| 39 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 40 | When she wrote home , as she now did regularly , she wrote believing herself to be very contented . |
| 41 | It would be easier now his mother was dead — though Clemence had n't known that when she wrote . |
| 42 | The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . |
| 43 | Celie felt special , Shug made her feel special , especially when she wrote and sung her a song . |
| 44 | She was coming to the end of months on the barren atoll of Pity Me when she heard the moth rattle against her window , between tacked-up scarlet and black batik fabric and the glass . |
| 45 | When she heard the shrill call , like an owl but human , she slipped out and joined her lover in the little barn beside the byre . |
| 46 | When she heard my voice , she asked drily , ‘ What do you want ? ’ |
| 47 | But Margaret laughed at him , and when she heard about a new God who sacrificed only himself , and gave bread and sweet wine to the people , she became a Christian . |
| 48 | Frau Nordern asked — and blenched when she heard the figure . |
| 49 | Alison was greatly impressed when she heard Nigel was a writer . |
| 50 | Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed . |
| 51 | And when she heard Gloria outside rattling the hen-house door , she screamed it again and again till Gloria managed to get the latch undone and came in and dragged her yelling through the droppings and feathers and washed her face under the water pump and dried it on her hanky . |
| 52 | When she heard the grumbles of the county landowners after the announcement , she may have wished she had done . |
| 53 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |
| 54 | Wilson hesitated over how little ‘ little ’ would be but , when she heard the sum , could not resist agreeing since it was so very small . |
| 55 | When she heard movement above — there was no shouting — Wilson went up and knocked on the door and was told , in the most mild of voices , to come in . |
| 56 | When she heard them talking of home in her house it was as though it were a foreign country . |
| 57 | She was about to close her eyes again when she heard a far-off roaring . |
| 58 | The Israeli Jews in the little kibbutz a mile or so away had never heard of it , but an old Arab woman in a long dark dress picking fruit pointed up a hill when she heard the name and shrugged her shoulders . |
| 59 | She 'd hardly reached the closet when she heard her father 's voice . |
| 60 | After a while when the sickness had subsided , she opened the door and was about to creep cautiously away , when she heard her father speak some words that halted her : ‘ Who 's to blame for the club nights , I ask you ? ’ he was saying . |