Example sentences of "when she [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 6 | Her expression was cool , almost impassive , and Nicolo wondered if that was how she looked when she lay beneath a man , her flesh responding to his caresses but her soul forever untouched . |
| 7 | When she stepped on a stick and snapped it , the sudden noise caused a rook to rise from its nest with a startled beating of wings . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , when she disappeared for a week without saying anything to Katrine who was her closest friend , Katrine went round to the flat a number of times , thinking she must be ill . |
| 9 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 10 | When she returned with a tea-tray , Melissa was on her feet admiring a portrait of a handsome , grey-haired man that hung above the stone fireplace . |
| 11 | Erm and she returned , when she returned as a teacher without Emily in forty three . |
| 12 | When she returned from a solo engagement in Norway , Diana was still in the early stages of pregnancy . |
| 13 | Brenda Hurley , mother of Becky and Gavin , needed treatment for shock when she returned from a night at the bingo to find a scene of devastation . |
| 14 | She shuddered when she looked in an open door and saw grey-faced children in beds with blue curtains round , propped up on pillows . |
| 15 | THE widow of Muppet creator Jim Henson made the volatile Miss Piggy look like a pussycat when she ran into a pair of puppets at the centre of a legal battle , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 17 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 18 | A woman motorcyclist was killed when she collided with a car near Sprays Bridge , East Sussex . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At last she wrote to Sir John Merchiston , who was a remote cousin , but whom she had known when she came as a débutante to visit here with her family for the hunting . ’ |
| 21 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 22 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 23 | I saw her when she came to a Christmas party at Thornfield , six or seven years ago . ’ |
| 24 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 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 | When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it . |
| 27 | Vitor supplied , when she came to an awkward halt . |
| 28 | This is the story about Miranda Mouse , and what happened when she went for a walk in Puddle Lane . |
| 29 | And again there was the quiver of amusement , because had Dierdriu ever been discreet when she went to a lover 's bed ? |
| 30 | A Nairobi lawyer , Martha Njoka , claimed that she was assaulted by a special branch superintendent when she went to a police station to trace Imanyara . |