Example sentences of "when she [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world .
2 When she looked at him through eyes swimming with tears his face was taut with feeling , his eyes filled with burning tenderness .
3 Nothing compared to what her heart did when she looked at him like that .
4 While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ .
5 But when she smiled at me like that , I thought she was the most beautiful woman in England .
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