Example sentences of "when she [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 2 | She had n't known , when she agreed to Caro 's suggestion , that her friend lived on a narrow boat . |
| 3 | She was , Harry thought , really pretty when she chose to be so . |
| 4 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 5 | She often did that sort of thing these days — repulsing him just when she seemed to be warming again . |
| 6 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 7 | When she returned to the UK , however , she entered into the restaurant and hotel business with her husband Gordon . |
| 8 | When she returned to Margate after 10.30 that night she found a letter from Edward , posted before they had met , awaiting her . |
| 9 | When she returned to the bedroom she was carrying a flannel . |
| 10 | In Ireland , Barbara had learned a method of making cheese with unskimmed cow 's milk and when she returned to Ayrshire she introduced the new process . |
| 11 | When she returned to her boat , she did not notice this , and proceeded to row back to her lock-house . |
| 12 | Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later . |
| 13 | When she returned to the kitchen , Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar 's eyes . |
| 14 | But she feared that when she returned to work at the unit , the problems she had complained about would still be there . |
| 15 | Brian was waiting for her when she returned to her room , a room which was soon to fill with flowers . |
| 16 | And when the all clear sounded , even though the realization that she had survived yet another night sent relief singing through her , there was the agony of wondering what she would find when she returned to Lyra Street . |
| 17 | When she returned to London in 1787 he wrote a brilliant concert aria , ‘ Ch'io mi scordi di te , ’ with piano obbligato , for her and himself to play . |
| 18 | It became clear she was on holiday , and when she returned to work a disciplinary hearing was held and she was sacked . |
| 19 | The man agreed that the 15-year-old alleged victim looked ‘ quite bewildered ’ when she returned to her home to see Casabona and the lodger inside . |
| 20 | All the animals were waiting for Anabelle when she returned to Uncle Alfred 's nest on the other side of the canal . |
| 21 | She had these cryings often , she says complacently , while she was in Jerusalem and Rome , but when she returned to England , they were much less frequent ; then they occurred once a month , once a week , daily , seven or fourteen times a day , and at last ‘ whenever God would send them ’ , in church or in the street — never , apparently , in the privacy of her own home . |
| 22 | Aaron 's company director mum Leah , 36 , only discovered what had happened when she returned to the centre after work . |
| 23 | But when she returned to work , NatWest bosses told her : ‘ Sorry , you 're surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 24 | Why then did tens of thousands turn out to see her when she returned to Guatemala last week ? |
| 25 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
| 26 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 27 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 28 | She escaped her sister 's gimlet gaze when she returned to the privacy of her own apartment . |
| 29 | When she returned to her apartment later that night her friends were eager for news . |
| 30 | Soothed by that solitary telephone call , Diana 's ruffled pride was momentarily mollified when she returned to Coleherne Court . |