Example sentences of "when her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 2 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 3 | Lorraine Herbert , of Flaxton , Yorkshire , was intrigued when her young daughter Joanne started talking about her friend , Dohti . |
| 4 | When her first attempt to sustain a local nursing service failed , she decided that the first essential was a national organization to provide loans , train nurses , and monitor standards . |
| 5 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 6 | She recognized that this feeling was in part a hangover from her schooldays , when her occasional invitations to friends had invariably resulted in sessions of strained discomfort , presided over by the disapprobation , however concealed , of her mother ; she had no precedent for successful hospitality . |
| 7 | She is furious that he has married beneath him , but appalled when her vicious attack on him threatens to end their relationship for ever . |
| 8 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 9 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 10 | When her future brother-in-law asked where he could find the Duchess of Westminster , the wife of Britain 's richest aristocrat , she joked : ‘ Oh Andrew , do stop name dropping . ’ |
| 11 | When her inner disquiet began to peak in case Ven Gajdusek might once again ‘ overlook ’ that he had agreed to see her , Fabia got out of her damp clothes and went to wash her hair and take a bath . |
| 12 | Pamela 's major qualities were courage , humour and broadmindedness , although the last of these was put to the test , first when her only brother became a Roman Catholic , then when her only daughter married one . |
| 13 | All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances . |
| 14 | Like the Biblical Shunamite woman , whose faith in God was such that when her only son died she answered the prophet Elisha 's question ‘ Is all well with the child ? ’ with ‘ It is well ’ , so these women answer ‘ All is well ’ when humanly all is a disaster . |
| 15 | Mrs Scorgie , a Darlingtonian whose grandfather , Frederick Markham , had a wine and spirits shop in the Market Place , returned to the town when her only son was ten . |
| 16 | Pamela 's major qualities were courage , humour and broadmindedness , although the last of these was put to the test , first when her only brother became a Roman Catholic , then when her only daughter married one . |
| 17 | I thought you were Steve , ’ she breathed at last when her tumbled thoughts had ceased their turmoil . |
| 18 | When she heard why she was missing , Di immediately agreed to meet Tessa when her official visit was over . |
| 19 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 20 | It was one of the rare occasions when her tight-lipped mouth opened into something approaching a smile . |
| 21 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 22 | Therein , she thought , lay the source of the money as well as its eventual loss , because , when her grand father inherited the place , the farm was already in debt . |
| 23 | FATAL attraction killer Susan Christie got her wish for justice yesterday — when her five-year jail term was increased to nine . |
| 24 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 25 | Paul 's donor was found by the Anthony Nolan Trust , a register of donors set up by Shirley Nolan when her 7 year old son died from a rare bone marrow disease before a donor could be found . |
| 26 | When her red boots stepped on to the pavement the shock which smacked into her was conveniently attributed to the cold . |
| 27 | Three putts cost her a stroke at the 18th , which she followed with an eagle three at the 430-yard first when her seven-iron second finished only two feet from the hole . |
| 28 | Her anger is so incandescent that , when her ageing mother is brutally attacked by a burglar , she falls under suspicion . |
| 29 | The woman was being treated for Hodgkins Disease — a form of cancer — when her spinal cord was injured . |
| 30 | Renshaw has set a tentative date of mid-1993 for her return , when her youngest child will be at playgroup . |