Example sentences of "when she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke moved closer , his arm brushing hers as he leant against the rail , one eyebrow quirking when she immediately moved away . |
| 2 | His eyes searching hers from very close quarters , he chuckled when she hastily lowered her lashes . |
| 3 | When she hastily drew away and tried to wriggle off the bed he caught her wrist and pulled her back . |
| 4 | The carefree quality disappears when she shyly tries to tell the Tutor how fond she has become of him , and when she discovers Natalia and the Tutor in each other 's arms , she loses all inhibitions to denounce them . |
| 5 | When she eventually returned , utterly distraught , our fears were confirmed : she had discovered the men 's bodies lying where they had been shot . |
| 6 | I hate that man , she told herself vigorously when she eventually forced herself to sit down and jigsaw the jumbled fragments of her emotions into place . |
| 7 | She , lately returned from India , has known much sorrow and can instantly understand this love when she eventually suspects it . |
| 8 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 9 | As soon as she closed her eyes a dark , austerely handsome face filled her mind , crowding out the last of her lingering fright , and when she eventually managed to get back to sleep it was to dream of Michele Lorenzo once more . |
| 10 | It was unfair that circumstances should have placed it there , and until it was defused ( unlikely , her nature was unlikely to change ) or removed when she eventually took herself off , he watched it carefully . |
| 11 | Whereas in Northamptonshire the tutor-organiser saw himself as a professional liaising with other professionals in areas where voluntary participation was barely appropriate , his colleague in Essex was apparently expected to spend a lot of time in routine organising work which voluntary members could readily take over when she eventually resigned . |
| 12 | When she eventually tracked down the location , Miranda was speeding on a mix of excitement and anxiety . |
| 13 | When she eventually rose to face him her smile was pure theatre . |
| 14 | Mummy and Daddy back in Melbourne would n't be delighted , but Kylie was unrepentant when she eventually surfaced . |
| 15 | Her mother had died when she most needed help in her development , with all the problems of adolescence . |
| 16 | And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it — when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety . |
| 17 | ‘ And your parents quite obviously hate my guts because they think I walked out on Jennifer when she most needed me … |
| 18 | When she again took up Between in 1967 she decided to change the gender of the main character from male to female and ‘ it suddenly worked ’ ( 1990c:32 ) . |
| 19 | When she again hitched the linen up to ease its weight , he said , ‘ Well , I must be going . |
| 20 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 21 | Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm . |
| 22 | When she later challenged the EP she was told she should have contacted the Education Welfare Officer ( EWO ) designated by the LEA as being the ‘ named person ’ . |
| 23 | Even when she later encountered more difficulties , she tried all sorts of positions , but never changed her grip on the hammer . |
| 24 | When she later climbed into bed , though , she was human enough to have found — out of all the unpleasantness that had gone on — a couple of things of a complimentary nature . |
| 25 | When she later read ( at Clare 's instigation ) the Pankhursts ' story , with the exhortation to suffragettes to be ‘ an iron fist in a velvet glove ’ , she immediately linked that image with the symbol of ‘ fist-in-a-bag ’ . |
| 26 | A doctor strapped the arm but when she later tried to go riding again she lost her nerve and dismounted . |
| 27 | Coal gave Europe the industrial supremacy which enabled her to commandeer petroleum supplies when she later needed them , but even in 1939 coal was still her fundamental source of power . |
| 28 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 29 | She has to do so , what 's more , at a time in her life when she probably feels at her least competent and worthwhile . |
| 30 | When she belatedly realised that she must be pregnant she could not tell the Englishman , because he was away from the camp leading an action against an important German supply dump . |