Example sentences of "when she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 2 | Olive , when she was sharing the night with me , had the habit of coming up to me about 7.30pm and saying in a sympathetic voice , ‘ You do look tired ! |
| 3 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 4 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 5 | Particularly when she was dusting the shelves in the study . |
| 6 | JOANNE Jenkins from Raloo near Larne collected the top trophy at Ballyclare 's Speech/Drama Festival when she was awarded the Audrey Robinson Rose Bowl after giving the most pleasing performance during the week-long event which ended yesterday afternoon . |
| 7 | Many years later I was sent as emissary to Mary , Queen of Scots , when she was playing the two-backed beast with Bothwell . |
| 8 | It was only much later , when she was checking the dispensary , that an alternative came to mind . |
| 9 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 10 | ‘ Listen — you know how worried she sounded when she was interviewed the other day ? |
| 11 | When she was handed the mug she dipped her fingers in it and began to splash Agnes 's face with the cold water . |
| 12 | There was a scramble to the table now , and when she was handed the glass , she put one hand behind Agnes 's head and raised it , then put the glass to her lips and commanded , ‘ Get that down you . |
| 13 | ‘ The girl did n't know I was in my room when she was changing the linen . |
| 14 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 15 | One interesting fact emerged from her description of that birthday party , however , when she was describing the games that she and the other children played . |