Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] when she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , her heart sank when she examined the bowl more closely . |
| 2 | SHERYL Garratt says her heart dropped when she saw the ages of the jury . |
| 3 | Only Raimundo 's lurchers responded when she combed the burrs out of their coats and fed them bits of meat . |
| 4 | He loved the way her eyes lit when she heard the kind of music she liked well played . |
| 5 | Beryl 's ordeal began when she phoned the police , who promised to fax her details to the motoring organisation . |
| 6 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 7 | Zurachina turned when she heard the sound of approaching footsteps . |
| 8 | Minnie wept when she heard the news and willingly accompanied Julia to see their mother . |
| 9 | " Cheers , " Timothy Gedge said when she opened the hall door . |
| 10 | She was n't aware of how her voice softened when she said the word ‘ Mother ’ , although she did know that the precepts of morality and etiquette that she remembered her mother spelling out to her were the ones she kept most assiduously . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm astonished , Loretta , ’ Tracey said when she described the raid on Puddephat 's rooms . |
| 12 | I think a large diamond pin of some kind up near the collar , and those glittery sort of earrings , and perhaps several bracelets to flash when she moves the muff . ’ |
| 13 | Swede Helen Alfredsson 's successful season in both Europe and America continued when she won the IBM Ladies ' Open in Stockholm . |
| 14 | I think she feels a certain resentment that he used his wife 's illness , her death , and now uses the children as an excuse for reneging on his undertaking to leave when she wanted the cottage back . ’ |
| 15 | Hurriedly she licked them from her fingers , then looked up and felt her pulse jerk when she saw the way he was looking at her mouth . |
| 16 | ‘ We have n't got much , ’ my mother said when she read the letter , ‘ but we 've certainly got more than she or the other people in Mavhinje have . |