Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beryl East , an elderly woman from Sussex , died at a north Devon beauty spot when she fell into the flooded East Lyn River while walking with her husband . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 7 | But when she returned to the cool breakfast-room where Faye was spending the morning , the artist clapped her hands together delightedly and said , ‘ There ! |
| 8 | When she returned to the top room , where Scathach lay , she found that the wall had almost completely absorbed Harry 's corroded pistol . |
| 9 | When she returned with the main meal , Penry sniffed ecstatically . |
| 10 | ‘ See it in its historical perspective , ’ Ellen comforted her husband when she returned in the small hours . |
| 11 | The new Dunbar lifeboat , the Waveney-class Thomas James King , was on station in Torness Harbour to greet Spirit of Scotland when she returned from the Tall Ships Race to Norway ( see back page ) . |
| 12 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 13 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 14 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 15 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 16 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 17 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 18 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 19 | She shuddered when she looked in an open door and saw grey-faced children in beds with blue curtains round , propped up on pillows . |
| 20 | When she looked in the little round mirror , she saw that she was n't falling to pieces . |
| 21 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 22 | Her voice was muffled when she crawled under the oilcloth-covered table to search for Quimper bits . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Vitor supplied , when she came to an awkward halt . |
| 27 | When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was a child , he should have thought about what would happen when she went through the usual adolescent trials . |
| 30 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |