Example sentences of "when she have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 2 | When she had first plied her trade as a child prostitute , she had always been embarrassed by their silent knowing stares . |
| 3 | As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house . |
| 4 | She was almost sure that if somebody had asked her about all this business when she had first woken in the back of the vehicle , she could , despite her pain and discomfort , have replied . |
| 5 | She went in the opposite direction from the rock drawings , her planned destination when she had first conceived her scheme . |
| 6 | From one she extracted the brown exercise book , more creased and folded than when she had first set eyes on it a quarter of an hour or so before . |
| 7 | She began to feel young and amazingly pretty , like she had felt all those years ago when she had first emerged from the chrysalis of self-conscious adolescence to spread her butterfly wings . |
| 8 | Compared to this , the look of anger he had worn when she had first met him in the garden was merely one of passing irritation . |
| 9 | When she had first known him , the glossy curls had been ruthlessly cut into a very short , severe style that would have suited very few men , but looked exactly right with his strong features . |
| 10 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 11 | Who would have thought when she had first seen him in England that he would drag her into his life , order her about , kiss her ? |
| 12 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 13 | Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea . |
| 14 | Very fat , stouter even than when she 'd first arrived , with a great soft moon face and little spectacles which looked lost . |
| 15 | Mr Gibbon had been an industrialist whose firm had employed the ad agency which Aunt Ilsa had worked for when she 'd first moved to London . |
| 16 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 17 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 18 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
| 19 | You know when er the fir when we went up to Edith 's , when she 'd first moved in , for |