Example sentences of "when she [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she stepped from the changing-room and walked to the poolside , however , she was greeted with the usual enthusiasm , especially from Belinda , who attached herself once again and trailed round the pool behind her , loudly voicing her admiration , and , to Rachel 's embarrassment , drawing attention to the new swimsuit . |
| 2 | She had just reached the foot of the stairs when she saw Ben entering the yard ; and when she stepped from the doorway he called towards her , ‘ Been on a tour of inspection , then ? ’ |
| 3 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 4 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 5 | ‘ Nephthys found Nefi 's body early , when she returned from the house of her husband-to-be . |
| 6 | When she returned from the shops , Mum told me to accompany her to the Captain 's to ask if we could have the Mission Hall for the wedding . |
| 7 | She grasped the light covering and was about to throw it off when she realised from the fabric 's texture that her own cotton skirt had been laid over her . |
| 8 | A Coroner has recorded a verdict of suicide on Nicolette Fame , the wife of the singer Georgie Fame , who was suffering from depression when she jumped from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol . |
| 9 | Come as soon as surgery closes ’ , and when she turned from the telephone she smiled . |
| 10 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 11 | For Joan Breckenridge it was a mark of popularity that so many colleagues and friends attended her two presentations , when she retired from the company on 20th July , after forty one years of continuous service . |
| 12 | When she retired from the stage she took her greatest pleasure in her marriage , in travel , in bird-watching , in music , in her vast correspondence , and in the success of her two autobiographies . |
| 13 | She 'd arranged with the school for me to see her results and report later when she phoned from the villa . |
| 14 | When she emerged from the tunnel , she was hemmed in on either side by wooden fences . |
| 15 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 16 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |