Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know . |
| 2 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 3 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 4 | She was happy when she starved herself of new clothes and expensive hairdressers , her bun gone , her blonde hair cut short , strict and styleless , by a merciless local hairdresser . |
| 5 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 6 | When she left him in 1983 he was devastated . |
| 7 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 8 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 9 | She never noticed it when she was in there and when she turned it over that was all green , all the way round . |
| 10 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |