Example sentences of "[adv] when she [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 2 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 3 | Especially when she happens to have a half-sister who can provide her with a stable and secure home in London ? ’ |
| 4 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 5 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 6 | She fired the gun at the raiders from just four feet away when she went to help the threatened landlord at Knebworth , Hertfordshire , in December 1990 . |
| 7 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
| 8 | She promised herself that she would try once more when she got to work . |
| 9 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 10 | In 1977 she elected to go to a nursing home in Regent 's Park where she was treated by Dr Maurice Lipsedge , a psychiatrist who , by pure coincidence , cared for Diana a decade later when she resolved to fight her bulimia . |
| 11 | as if to prove his point he drew one long finger over her cheek , trailing it over her bottom lip , his eyes glinting reprovingly when she tried to bite . |
| 12 | On one occasion , it began to go up when she wanted to go down ; another time , it refused to open and kept her prisoner for half an hour . |
| 13 | Well Helen 's a bit like you she , she sort of perks up when she starts to smell the petrol fumes |
| 14 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 15 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 16 | Even when she managed to do so she knew he would n't understand . |
| 17 | Divorcee Cheryl coped with her illness until six years ago when she began to deteriorate . |
| 18 | ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation . |
| 19 | But she said he was n't there when she started to reverse . |
| 20 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 21 | Yet when she came to think about this further , she realised that she was nowhere near understanding Brian . |
| 22 | Yet when she came to think about it further , she knew that if she were honest with herself , there had been an inevitability about her brief , wild , headlong fling with Freddie Nash . |
| 23 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 24 | Charles became quite hopeful again when she promised to give the matter her attention the very next morning . |
| 25 | ‘ We can give them to her to suck on when she needs to push . ’ |
| 26 | It was the company that Joanna Martin missed the most when she left to get married : " all the girls helped each other , and if you had n't the right kind of type , someone helped you " . |
| 27 | And I said yes okay when she came to pick it up |