Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] when her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was weepy when her husband was first admitted to hospital , concerned as to how she would find him and worried as to what would happen if he came home . |
| 2 | Scarlet began to feel hotter than the weather merited : she was embarrassed when her husband was offensive to cab drivers , and it was now almost inevitable that he would be . |
| 3 | For once she was relieved when her shift was over and it was time to go home . |
| 4 | She was glad when her work was done and she could walk back to the farm , filling her lungs with the keen moorland air . |
| 5 | Like any other mother , Rosemerry Venet was thrilled when her daughter , Joanna , was born . |
| 6 | HOUSEWIFE Jean Matthews was furious when her spaniel Bonnie snuffled through her purse … and wolfed down THREE £20 notes and a fiver . |
| 7 | The women 's stories and miseries haunted her , filled her dreams ; the desperation of their situations made Carolyn herself feel trapped and frantic , so that she dreaded going to the Refuge and was tongue-tied when her help was most needed . |
| 8 | Diana , then 14 , was heartbroken when her grandfather died aged 83 in June 1975 — six years after her father 's bitter divorce from her mum , now Mrs Frances Shand Kydd . |
| 9 | Last night Spanish Opera diva Montserrat Caballe admitted she was heartbroken when her duet with Mercury was not chosen . |