Example sentences of "when she first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she first arrived at SIS as a student , Anne had an affair with some chap in her year and when it broke up , she decided she wanted to leave . |
| 2 | Dorabella 's playfulness is similar to that of Natalia 's ward , Vera , when she first dances in A Month in the Country , . |
| 3 | Its slightly more liberal ethos seemed to affect Krupskaia , for when she first went to work in the People 's Commissariat of Education ( Narkompros ) after the revolution , she stressed the need for independence from central management by intellectuals . |
| 4 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 5 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 6 | When she first met Pollock she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 7 | Boudjema , who is of Algerian descent , says she was totally shocked when she first heard of the Affair of the Scarf . |
| 8 | Despite her success , Buchi Emecheta still feels about this country much as she did when she first arrived 30 years ago , on a grey March morning in Liverpool . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's like Balanchine , ’ cried an American dancer when she first discovered them . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm assuming she was killed on the Saturday , of course , when she first went missing , as we now know . |
| 11 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 12 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
| 13 | She revealed it was Alan who took her under his wing when she first joined the cast as a relatively inexperienced actress . |
| 14 | ‘ She was a nobody when she first came to us and now she 's trying to bite the hand that fed her , ’ said a spokesman for the TV company bitterly . |
| 15 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 16 | ‘ As I remember it , on the occasion when she first accosted us , you told her that she would be better off at home with a baby on her knee . ’ |
| 17 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 18 | When she first mounted the platform , we all stood up . |
| 19 | When she first decided to pursue her career , our parents were most set against it . |
| 20 | Eve , the present manager of the home , found it very difficult to learn what to do when she first started work as a care assistant . |
| 21 | When she first arrived in Bristol Moggach lived at Badock Hall , then the only mixed hall of residence , which also gave it an aura of excitement . |
| 22 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 23 | His mother , who had taken one look at the place when she first returned to France , had been firm . |
| 24 | She bought Scudder 's Cottage when she first arrived here three years ago . |
| 25 | When she first began to have coaching in horsemanship , she was obsessed with her progress and it was her main topic of conversation whenever Stephen joined them for dinner . |
| 26 | When she first felt herself swept away on the tide of desire , the risk of detection had added spice to the affair . |
| 27 | When she first read the letter , standing out there in the heat of Nassau Street , Ruth was overcome by a pang of homesickness so severe that it felt like a pain burning inside her . |
| 28 | A neighbour said : ‘ We saw her when she first brought the baby home . |
| 29 | Liza , for her part , had still seemed inconsolable when she first arrived back at her unit on the edge of Salisbury Plain . |
| 30 | When she first joined the band , Sinead was still at school , a liberal Quaker establishment called Newtown School in Waterford . |