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 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like so many women of her age , Belinda wanted her baby very much and felt that it was a miracle when she became pregnant . |
| 8 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was sixteen and doing some 0-level retakes at further education college when she became pregnant . |
| 12 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 13 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 14 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 15 | Miss Bush said that Paula was very happy when she became pregnant . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a terrible strain — especially when she became incontinent . ’ |
| 17 | Medic Dr Christine A'Court was forced to supervise a makeshift saline drip to treat herself when she became dehydrated . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was still pondering this , as well as thinking about Faye Hamilton and the long difficult journey through pregnancy that lay ahead , when she became aware that Dr Russell was laughing to himself — just a quiet chuckle at first , but as he realised she was watching him and saw her bemused expression the sound grew to a full-throated and resonant guffaw . |
| 21 | She was just crossing the square , and wondering where in her portmanteau she had placed her woollen shawl , when she became aware of footsteps that were not her own . |
| 22 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 23 | She was in her bedroom on Saturday morning making a list of the errands and shopping she had to do when she became aware of an excited chattering in the courtyard below her window . |
| 24 | Midwife Christine Hall told the hearing that she could not remember whether she notified the registrar when she noticed some deceleration in the heartbeat at 4.25pm but did so when she became worried at 7.30pm . |
| 25 | Sisterhood seemed to stop when she became old . |
| 26 | Love had found its proper expression when she became old enough to repeat little verses her governess taught her , mostly in French , or to stumble ludicrously through songs her mother sang . |
| 27 | In the past , when she felt depressed , she knew that she could always rely on her grandmother to lift her spirits . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps she was n't so wrong when she felt cheated and outraged and alone ? |
| 29 | However , when she felt confident enough , she attempted to renegotiate her pay deal and was promptly fired . |
| 30 | She had already started to retreat into eating when she felt upset . |