Example sentences of "when she do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Olwyn has a tantrum ( hits , screams , hand-bites ) when she does not get her own way .
2 UMI RIN TOSIT The sensations a woman experiences when she does not know how she feels about a man
3 Sue says there are times when she does n't feel like training but she presses on because she wants to be number one .
4 ‘ The Army ought to start asking questions when she does n't turn up for the nest course at the Fort ’ George said hopefully .
5 Is that right ? ’ he wanted to know when she did not answer .
6 And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again .
7 The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge .
8 Those evenings were the good times , when she did not question so fiercely what she was making of her life .
9 ‘ We first began to get worried about her on Thursday morning when she did not turn up to do her paper round .
10 And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ?
11 And now there was rarely a day when she did n't walk the half mile over the headland to sit in Alice 's kitchen and talk and watch while she worked .
12 There were occasions yesterday when she did n't look a bad player , certainly trimmer and more mobile than when she played the game for real , and showing some nimble footwork which Lionel himself would have envied .
13 There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation .
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