Example sentences of "when she [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the idea of keeping her enemy close seemed ludicrous — how could she keep him close when she fell apart at the seams every time he was anywhere near her ? |
| 2 | When she wrote home , as she now did regularly , she wrote believing herself to be very contented . |
| 3 | The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned . |
| 4 | 5 ) ‘ my little girl was just starting potty training when she became almost overnight chronically loose . |
| 5 | When she became too ill and breathless to come to the surgery , I visited her once a week . |
| 6 | Alone once more , she walked and walked , and when she became too hot to carry on , she swam again and dried herself in the sun . |
| 7 | She had to give it up when she became too sick . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's after the transplant when she felt so good and was out running about . |
| 9 | But could she do more when she felt so weak ? |
| 10 | Jessamy found herself resenting the tranquillity of the scene when she felt so very unpeaceful inside herself . |
| 11 | Unable to meet his eyes , she stared at the garden , wondering vaguely why it looked the same when she felt so very different . |
| 12 | Puzzled to find her thoughts taking such a melancholy turn when she felt so wonderful inside , Sarella made her way into the bathroom and ran a shower . |
| 13 | He was about to speak , to praise her , when she began again — a slower , more thoughtful piece this time . |
| 14 | Still gripping Nicola 's shirt , Goldman pulled her in and punched her , missing her face when she lurched away from the blow , but taking her on the body . |
| 15 | When she discovered also that Persian was written from right to left , she became convinced that his eyesight would suffer irreparable damage . |
| 16 | It came as a shock to discover , when she stepped outside , that it was dark . |
| 17 | When she arrives home in the evening , she knows she will have no stimulating exchange of news to look forward to with a husband and family . |
| 18 | GERALD 'S wife is understandably miffed when she arrives home in London earlier than planned from a trip back to the States and finds another woman 's underwear in their bedroom . |
| 19 | Edouard , who knew she was most vulnerable when she seemed most frivolous , pressed her hand . |
| 20 | When she getting home ? |
| 21 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 22 | All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead . |
| 23 | So were you born here moved to Malton , moved back here and then moved to Malton or you were here and they you moved to Malton when she lived there ? |
| 24 | His courtesy , however , contained a reticence that did not permit him to ask outright just how she had come by her knowledge of Møn when she spent only a week a year on the island . |
| 25 | When she returned later she found her husband 's body in the car in the garage . |
| 26 | When she returned voluntarily from Canada last February , Bambi was not just put in solitary . |
| 27 | He kept the flat tidy while Robyn was out doing good works , and always had a cup of cocoa or a bowl of soup ready for her when she returned home , tired but invariably triumphant . |
| 28 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |
| 29 | Constance , on her side , had become sufficiently worldly to know what was expected of her when she returned home . |
| 30 | The bodies were discovered by Mrs Anderson 's only child , eight-year-old Kelly , when she returned home from a school function . |