Example sentences of "when she [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 2 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 3 | Suddenly , when she had been lost to everything , alarm bells went off again as the sound of someone knocking on her bedroom door penetrated her thoughts . |
| 4 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 5 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 6 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 7 | When she had been wrestling with him she had used the foul language common among gypsies . |
| 8 | It went back to her childhood when she had been teased by her schoolmates about her stammer . |
| 9 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 10 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 11 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 12 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 13 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |