Example sentences of "[noun pl] when she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pursed her lips when she looked at him . |
| 2 | He had begun it , but she was an active participant now , her breast voluptuously offered to the sensual onslaught of his parted lips when she knew she should be shrinking from them . |
| 3 | That had been one of the biggest worries when she had first fled to France : what was everyone going to say ? |
| 4 | Then she thought of Miss Clinton , and of her daddy and his white face as he ran to the car to chase Miss Clinton — and of poor Aunt Nellie and her scared eyes when she realised what she 'd done . |
| 5 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 6 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 7 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 8 | Rosie cringed and showed the whites of her eyes when she looked up at her master . |
| 9 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 10 | The boldness of her eyes when she had greeted him had spoken of no social fear . |
| 11 | MARGARET WINDSOR , a mathematical modeller in Harwell 's Combustion Centre could n't believe her eyes when she arrived for work . |
| 12 | They lend her the viability of shared experience , giving her the confidence to shrug her shoulders when she feels like it . |
| 13 | Her burns had left pale patches on her body , like distemper on windfallen fruit , and her pelvis mended in a twisted shape , leaving one leg four inches shorter than the other , and shooting pains through her back and shoulders when she moved . |
| 14 | She stopped making entries when she began work on the Treatise . |
| 15 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 16 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 17 | THE Duchess of York flashed a rare smile during a day of tantrums when she posed with daughters in the snow yesterday . |
| 18 | Bridget concealed her pregnancy from everybody until she was about four months when she told her boyfriend , who was not the baby 's father . |
| 19 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 20 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 21 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 22 | Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card . |
| 23 | They had known it was not right to separate a man from his wife for several months when she had a young baby and a business , in a manner of speaking , to care for . |
| 24 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't bother buying a crib ; Rachel went straight into her carrycot and stayed there until she was four months when she moved to the cot . |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't believe my ears when she said she hated her father , ’ Anne said . |
| 27 | His lips moved as if he was about to say something , but he had not formed the words when she interrupted him . |
| 28 | She had repeated those words when she said goodbye . |
| 29 | She had taken a very few steps when she heard someone running up behind her . |
| 30 | She caused a few titters when she said she 'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties . |