Example sentences of "when she [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 2 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 3 | She peered through the glass door , half inclined to look for Dana in the bigger stores , when she was riveted by the sight of her twin appearing from behind a curtain . |
| 4 | She did not protest when she was led towards the door . |
| 5 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 6 | A CAT was the victim of a cruel attack when she was shot in the neck by a pellet . |
| 7 | The Ithusheng Community Association was founded more than 10 years ago by well-known South African physician and political activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele , when she was banished to the rural village of Lenyenye in one of the so-called black homelands in the North Eastern Transvaal . |
| 8 | When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke . |
| 9 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 10 | Police said she had suffered a terrible blow to the back of her head but was still alive when she was tossed into the water . |
| 11 | Stephen Whitley 's widow Constance Whitley , 34 , told Cheshire 's deputy Coroner John Pollard , how she was in their terrace home in Mill Lane , Great Sutton , on the evening of March 4 , when she was alerted to the fire by sounds coming from the garage , a few yards from the house . |
| 12 | The ship ended her seagoing life when she was berthed in the West Old Dock , Leith , in 1928 where she remained until moved to the Newcastle Quay in 1969 . |
| 13 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 14 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 15 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 16 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 17 | He was understandably apprehensive when Diana made her first speech partly in Welsh at Cardiff City Hall when she was presented with the Freedom of the City . |
| 18 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 19 | In 1971 I was in command of Venturous when she was sent to the North West Coast of Scotland , a winter patrol specifically designed to keep a check on the foreign fishing fleets engaged in " Klondyking " . |
| 20 | He thought that in principle the plaintiff 's right to compensation came into existence only when she was born with the bodily disability from which she suffered . |
| 21 | Ana Eugenia was only 18 years old when she was kidnapped by the National Police : |
| 22 | I knew she 'd better be told , otherwise she 'd get a bonnie fright when she was stopped at the paydesk and accused of shoplifting . |
| 23 | The work in setting up sanctuaries for threatened chimps began when she was asked by the American ambassador in Burundi to design a conservation plan . |
| 24 | Yet , when she was asked by the coroner to step into the witness-box , she seemed to take a grip on herself , drawing on some inner strength . |
| 25 | When she was called into the General 's office in the rebuilt International Headquarters in Queen Victoria Street only a couple of hundred yards from St Paul 's Cathedral she had no premonition that further moves were afoot . |
| 26 | It was recorded that when she was speaking in the market-place she was audible by the Senate House . |
| 27 | As she progressed , she began to learn how to correct her balance when she was displaced by the physiotherapist , so that her confidence in her balance on her left leg was increased . |
| 28 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 29 | She 'd gone into labour when she was told about the Antelope , and Martin was born about a month premature . |
| 30 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |