Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	Described as " quiet , genteel and beautiful — a real aristocrat " Maria can only have compounded her family 's displeasure when she eloped with a volatile Irish sheep shearer .
4	There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life .
5	She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
6	Jessamy was halfway to the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she kept her drawing materials , when she came to a sudden halt .
7	Ms Sultana told the judge that she believed that she would only be truly married when she went through a religious ceremony in a mosque according to her faith .
8	Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend .
9	When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily .
10	Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him .
11	AN ACID house fan died when she collapsed in a fit and suffered liver failure after taking a single ‘ ecstasy ’ tablet , an inquest was told yesterday .
12	She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 .
13	He had hoped to impress her , and , though I knew this was the wrong way to go about it , since she was always embarrassed by emotional arguments , when she replied in a stiff , rather guarded way , I was deeply hurt on his behalf .

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