Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When she heard this Vasilissa was even more frightened , but she said , " Oh , my sister , let me in I beg you , for I have been sent to fetch a little fire . "
2 She was just about to get back in the car , when she heard another vehicle coming up the hill fast .
3 Doubtless he gave her a good dowry when she married another burgess , John Kempe .
4 Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’
5 The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has at last caught up with milk , writes MAGNUS GRIMOND
6 The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has resulted in the Government deciding to end the life of the venerable Milk Marketing Board , set up in 1933 to buy all the milk produced in England and Wales , paving the way for what it is claimed will be a totally free market in milk .
7 The actress found out about their relationship when she discovered nude photos of Soon-Yi taken by Allen .
8 That led to TV appearances on Carrott 's Lib and Saturday Night Live , but her career took an unexpected turn when she spent 16 months with Robert Lindsay in the West End musical , Me And My Girl .
9 When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times .
10 She hated her home town with such violence that when she returned each vacation from University , she would shake and tremble with an ashamed and feverish fear .
11 When she returned two hours later , pausing to unhitch her skirt , which had caught on the wire safety railing , she could hear Nathan cursing angrily .
12 Tina McGuffog , 46 , a planning enforcement officer , found the seven-year-old mare , Gala , dead in a field beside her home near Twynholm , Kirkcudbrightshire , when she returned last Wednesday afternoon .
13 Her mother went to a nearby shop and when she returned 15 minutes later , Kathleen was nowhere to be found .
14 Julie , on her return , had her best finish ever in a British championship when she had closing rounds of 72 and 71 to be fifth in the Stroke-Play at Southerness .
15 Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ?
16 Yes , Phyllis Henley , the tough professional , would tell him when she had hard information , so he could only conclude she was still working on her lead .
17 Only when she had this data could she say with any confidence whether people who were converted into the Unification Church ( the dependent variable ) were different in any systematic ways from the rest of the population .
18 You should have heard her when she got that craze for Vegetarianism and Bernard Shaw .
19 She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands .
20 When she read those magazines , did she think she 'd ever be part of that world ?
21 MADONNA was already legendary when she made this record , but it was by far her most heartfelt , exuberant and accomplished set of songs .
22 Alison , who looked after Beatrice and Eugenie since they were babies , denied a rift with Fergie when she quit last month .
23 How many times she had felt a lift of excitement when she saw that sign and knew that Riverstown was only ten minutes away .
24 But the smile lasted less than a heartbeat and vanished entirely when she saw that fitzAlan continued to watch the small party until it disappeared from view .
25 It is used to denote full vitality , real spirited living ; contrast the deflation of the Queen of Sheba when she saw all Solomon 's treasure — there was no more ruach left in her' ( I Kgs. 10:5 ) .
26 ‘ Oh , but you do n't want to … ’ she began to deny , but her voice faded when she saw one eyebrow ascend — as if it was unheard-of for anyone to tell him what he wanted or did not want to do .
27 Isabel could have bitten her tongue when she saw one corner of fitzAlan 's mouth kick up .
28 ‘ Yes ? ’ she queried , cross at being interrupted , but her expression changed when she saw Ace standing outside .
29 ‘ A guest , Colonel Merrick 's wife , was in one of the rooms upstairs brushing her hair by candlelight in front of the mirror , when she saw this face peering over her shoulder .
30 Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms
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