Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 2 | I think my brother-in-law was summoned to the help of Mrs McLaren , when she fell into the brook one dark morning , because he was a parish councillor . |
| 3 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 4 | She had managed , nevertheless , to seize a few moments with the erstwhile companion when the gentlemen returned , for Araminta had at once gone over to greet Mr Saul Quatt , who had , at her request , presided over the service in the local church — much to the chagrin of its incumbent , whose ruffled feathers Mrs Alderley had been obliged to smooth when she heard of the plan from him . |
| 5 | FORMER nanny Karen Pattinson of Conwy did not hesitate when she heard of the plight of flood victims . |
| 6 | Jackie , 23 , of Bristol , said later she suspected 30-year-old Graham planned to pop the question when she heard about the Radio 5 link-up from Barcelona . |
| 7 | When she parked at the office she could n't find reverse . |
| 8 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 9 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 10 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 11 | The child 's grandmother was screaming for help after becoming bogged down in mud when she plunged into the water after the youngster . |
| 12 | Kellett-Bowman ) made that point eloquently when she intervened during the Secretary of State 's speech . |
| 13 | Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases . |
| 14 | Our only witness is the Cathedral cleaner , Mrs Thrigg , who thinks , but is n't sure , that it was in its place on the Tuesday before the murder when she cleaned round the pews in the infantry chapel . ’ |
| 15 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 16 | ‘ When she stepped off the pavement — ’ |
| 17 | When she stepped into the helicopter in front of me , I had no alternative but to follow her with my heart in my boots . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , when she disappeared into the powder room at the hotel where they stopped for lunch on the way back to London and Dunbar went off to book a table in the restaurant , he and Aubrey had a moment alone together . |
| 22 | Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage . |
| 23 | When she returned to the UK , however , she entered into the restaurant and hotel business with her husband Gordon . |
| 24 | When she returned to the kitchen , Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar 's eyes . |
| 25 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 26 | When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire . |
| 27 | As she went from the room , Beth could hear Cissie moaning behind her , and knew they would be going through the same old argument when she returned to the kitchen . |
| 28 | She knew what she would use to make the mask , but when she returned to the glade where , yesterday , she had visited the Moondream rajathuk , she found it quite destroyed . |
| 29 | Aaron 's company director mum Leah , 36 , only discovered what had happened when she returned to the centre after work . |
| 30 | When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up . |