Example sentences of "[verb] when she [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 2 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 3 | Eva admits she " may have been a bit impetuous in those early days " , but she was always willing to learn , and apologise when she realised she had overstepped the mark . |
| 4 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 5 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 6 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 7 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |
| 8 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 9 | She stopped when she saw me , wound the window down . |
| 10 | ‘ Need for subplots , ’ he muttered when she thought he was asleep . |
| 11 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 12 | What had she felt when she saw him dead ? |
| 13 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 14 | What was it his girl friend , Sandy Riverton , had said when she called him in the middle of the night ? |
| 15 | She wondered how she would feel when she saw him again . |
| 16 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 17 | The soft little click the door made when she closed it caused him to turn his head , and not by one flicker of an eyelash did he betray any emotion of her entrance . |
| 18 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 19 | The parcel exploded when she opened it , singeing her head and arms . |
| 20 | So she was not only watching but being watched when she thought she was by herself , when she was taking her clothes off and putting them on and so on . |
| 21 | He knocked softly on her door and his face was still drawn when she opened it . |
| 22 | It was an exhilarating meeting with her , because she was at her best and talking as she writes , and trying not to smile when she made us laugh . |
| 23 | Catriona had already laughed when she realised it was n't a joke . |
| 24 | She was n't lying when she told me about him and she lies awake at night crying for him . |
| 25 | Louisa had lied when she said they were friends . |
| 26 | Mrs Tiggy-winkle put her grey curls round the door to see what he wanted and tittered when she saw me captive again . |
| 27 | A masked man who broke into a woman 's house at Newbiggin , Northumberland , fled empty handed when she threatened him with a walking stick . |
| 28 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 29 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 30 | She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man . |