Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] when she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name . |
| 2 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 3 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 4 | Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her . |
| 5 | She swung round and marched along the path to where the boat was moored , and this time did n't make the mistake of turning back when she heard him laugh . |
| 6 | She only glanced up when she felt his shadow fall across her . |
| 7 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 8 | His ferocious idealism made her think over and over again in terror of what her father would have said to her , and what she would have replied , if he had woken up when she shook him . |
| 9 | She was receiving curtain calls nearly as long as his and on the Saturday night performance a spontaneous ( spontaneous — ha — Willi Zimmermann was in the house again ) burst of cheering broke out when she took her call . |
| 10 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 11 | There was a plastic model of Redd Harvest 's G-Mek V12 ‘ Nola Gay in the packet of krill , but the wheels fell off when she ran it across the table . |
| 12 | She was about to turn and go back when she saw something that made her stop and purse her lips disapprovingly . |
| 13 | She stared in anger at the old man 's face , at his eyes which goggled anxiously at hers , then roved off when she met his look , his lips which caved in on his gums and mumbled and tightened as though he was always eating . |
| 14 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 15 | Surely Perdita would n't kick up when she knew she was going to Argentina . |
| 16 | Maggie was thankfully drinking the tea , the pain-killer still on the tray , when Felipe arrived , knocking on the door and striding in when she opened it . |
| 17 | You think you no a colour until you try the er , and the one I actually picked out when she measured it off , she 'd only got three yards and I needed four and a half . |
| 18 | The first thing the lady in the hotel pointed out when she showed us our room overlooking the canal was an electric mosquito killer . |