Example sentences of "when she [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . |
| 2 | But Margaret laughed at him , and when she heard about a new God who sacrificed only himself , and gave bread and sweet wine to the people , she became a Christian . |
| 3 | Described as " quiet , genteel and beautiful — a real aristocrat " Maria can only have compounded her family 's displeasure when she eloped with a volatile Irish sheep shearer . |
| 4 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 5 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 6 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 7 | Jessamy was halfway to the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she kept her drawing materials , when she came to a sudden halt . |
| 8 | Ms Sultana told the judge that she believed that she would only be truly married when she went through a religious ceremony in a mosque according to her faith . |
| 9 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 10 | When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily . |
| 11 | A YOUNG divorcee faces a date with murder when she moves into a high-rise flat from which a lookalike blonde fell to her death . |
| 12 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 13 | AN ACID house fan died when she collapsed in a fit and suffered liver failure after taking a single ‘ ecstasy ’ tablet , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 14 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 15 | He had hoped to impress her , and , though I knew this was the wrong way to go about it , since she was always embarrassed by emotional arguments , when she replied in a stiff , rather guarded way , I was deeply hurt on his behalf . |