Example sentences of "when [art] girl " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders . |
| 2 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 3 | ‘ We have n't got the autopsy , sir , so I 've no idea when the girl died , yet . |
| 4 | For many years the decision in Prince ( 1875 ) , in effect that the man is strictly liable when the girl is under 16 , has been paraded by academic lawyers as the acme of injustice . |
| 5 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 6 | Yet when the girl grew into a young woman , she seemed unable to break free of her grandmother . |
| 7 | When the girl and he reached the platform , the train was in . |
| 8 | I 'd just time to read it when the girl returned . |
| 9 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 10 | It can be played in two ways , in the simple version , the girl goes and sits in front of the boy , but I always preferred the ‘ de luxe ’ form when the girl kisses the boy . |
| 11 | By the end of the day Harriet was not surprised when the girl went to bed early , pleading a headache which her mother did not think was entirely due to gin and tonic at ten thirty in the morning . |
| 12 | When the girl shrieked , ‘ Mummy ! ’ she fairly ran to the front door , with a cry of , ‘ What is it ? |
| 13 | Sometimes this is giggle micturition when the girl loses bladder control when laughing ( Berg 1979 ; Cooper 1973 ) . |
| 14 | W. Wilshere , a fellow magistrate , wrote to Samuel Whitbread asking him to be present when the girl was questioned . |
| 15 | When the girl asked him where he was going , he told her that they had to return to Moscow . |
| 16 | ‘ When the girl , Louise Taylor , and then Inspector Leeming were found , I do n't believe it did n't get back to the KGB . |
| 17 | When the girl brought the Major his pie , she asked him if Napoleon was coming . |
| 18 | She stays behind while Vicki goes to replenish the water bottles , but when the girl returns to the ship Barbara notices her being pursued by the sand creature . |
| 19 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 20 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 21 | When the girl made no move , she realised that instead of putting the poor creature at her ease , she had only succeeded in heightening her anxiety . |
| 22 | He was just going to go up to her to give it back , when the girl did something very strange . |
| 23 | She tested the water with her elbow , pushing the sleeve up , as she had done when the girl she was teasing was a baby , and then dipped the scoop into the cauldron and ladled it into a bowl for Rosa to wash the dirt of the road off her toes . |
| 24 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |
| 25 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 26 | When the girl came back into the cabin she was shaking . |
| 27 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 28 | When the girl 's mother and aunt came round to his house to take her back he became so violent and threatening that they decided they might be endangering the girl 's life by staying and arguing . |
| 29 | When the girl phoned him later , he felt she was trying to pin him down , breaking his ideas into domestic shards , clinging to conventions he did n't want . |
| 30 | When the girl approached her , Ace said , ‘ Try my special , Kate . |