Example sentences of "but when she turned " in BNC.

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1 Phoebe could accept that , it was how grandmothers were meant to be , but when she turned to her friends , looking for guidance and inspiration , she did not find it .
2 But when she turned back to her mother again , his face resumed its worried , searching frown of concentration , his ear attuned below the level of conversation to the pain and weariness in her voice .
3 But when she turned round , he was laying the table .
4 Molly 's special subject was the Ketterings ; but when she turned to the reproduction of ‘ The Flagellation ’ the book was empty , the list gone .
5 He slipped a golden band onto her finger , but when she turned to look at him , his face was never clear .
6 But when she turned she was smiling .
7 She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest .
8 But when she turned him down he married her sister instead .
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