Example sentences of "when she [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But any hope he might have had of sliding his arm round her and trying a tentative first kiss on the drive home was scotched when she fell asleep the moment she got into the car . |
| 2 | When she fell asleep , she began to dream . |
| 3 | Chris was three days into a holiday in Cornwall when she fell ill . |
| 4 | She described by implication the Pipers ' first impression of him when she wrote that |
| 5 | She even survived the appraising looks of the women and smiled when she heard one of them say after she had passed , ‘ What beautiful English skin . ’ |
| 6 | She cried a little when she heard that . |
| 7 | Chris had exclaimed when she heard that . |
| 8 | One mother , Mrs B , was very distressed when she heard this . |
| 9 | The Princess 's face went a little pink when she heard this . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sending the pram back , Bert , ’ said Mrs Perks , when she heard this . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | She was just about to get back in the car , when she heard another vehicle coming up the hill fast . |
| 13 | Doubtless he gave her a good dowry when she married another burgess , John Kempe . |
| 14 | Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 18 | Like so many women of her age , Belinda wanted her baby very much and felt that it was a miracle when she became pregnant . |
| 19 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 20 | Father O'Neill , 38 , had a love affair with 27-year-old religious education teacher Monika — then ran out on her when she became pregnant . |
| 21 | Effeminate , spoilt and faithless , he was a bitter disappointment to her , and was so thoroughly despised by the rest of the Court that when she became pregnant there were rumours about the child having possibly been fathered by one of her favourites . |
| 22 | She was sixteen and doing some 0-level retakes at further education college when she became pregnant . |
| 23 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 24 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 25 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 26 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a terrible strain — especially when she became incontinent . ’ |
| 28 | Medic Dr Christine A'Court was forced to supervise a makeshift saline drip to treat herself when she became dehydrated . |
| 29 | Sometimes Liza would come across Harriet sitting by a window , staring out to sea , her hands , for once , lying idle in her lap , an expression of infinite sadness on her face , which was quickly masked when she became aware of her daughter 's presence . |
| 30 | Clara , when she became aware of it , was not displeased , because although the other girls laughed , she knew enough of the world to know that no affection , however oddly won or placed , is laughable or negligible . |