Example sentences of "the [noun sg] when she [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 2 | She seems a little slow off the mark when she asserts that the attempt to control drugs became ‘ a War only when crack emrged ’ . |
| 3 | She 'd checked the impulse when she realised that since Travis was being man enough not to ask that of her she really could not interfere , only for Rosemary to reiterate all she had told Travis before . |
| 4 | A more general sense of difficulty in sustaining order and regularity in the early twentieth century underlies Lily Briscoe 's comments in To the Lighthouse when she remarks that an artist 's brush may be the ‘ one dependable thing in a world of strife , ruin , chaos ’ ( Woolf 1927 and 1973 : 170 ) . |
| 5 | Mrs Coates came up with the idea when she realised that young people were finding their way into adult bars or congregating in the streets . |