Example sentences of "but when she [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when she got closer , she could see that the old woman 's colour was feverish and the hands held out in welcome were trembling . |
| 2 | She was lying so still Carrie thought she was dead , but when she got up to run and call Hepzibah she saw that her chest was still moving and knew she was only asleep . |
| 3 | The sickness lightened a little and her spirits rose , but when she got up she felt sticky warmth between her thighs . |
| 4 | But when she got outside and began to rearrange her belongings to fit more neatly in the bicycle basket , Elisabeth Danziger found a bar of fleur-de-lis soap and a cube of rose geranium bath crystals in her hand . |
| 5 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 6 | But when she got back and dialled Alix 's number , Alix was out . |
| 7 | She felt she could never forgive herself , but when she got there , the beauty of the place overcame her again . |
| 8 | On the first morning , after a night in a Lycée bed , they all went to a preliminary reception at the Hôtel de Ville : Clara went , politely willing , but when she got there she found that it was a gigantic , milling , stifling insult . |
| 9 | But when she got there the ferryman was not around . |
| 10 | But when she got there , she found that Mrs Porter had just finished the task . |
| 11 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 12 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 13 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 14 | But when she looked up , he realised she was laughing , the tears streaming down her face . |
| 15 | She was still shivering with indignation , but when she looked up at her grandmother , it was to see her shivering too , but with suppressed laughter . |
| 16 | Knowing who it was without raising her head , she waited until she felt him standing beside her , but when she looked up , already prepared for trouble , she was shocked by the intensity of the hatred that glittered from out of his eyes . |
| 17 | She thought it might be either , but when she looked up , he was smiling pleasantly . |
| 18 | But when she looked up at him astonished and unguarded in her pleasure his heart swelled , and he was glad he 'd spoken . |
| 19 | The voice startled her but when she looked round she winced at the stale smell of alcohol on the man 's breath . |
| 20 | Chesarynth thought it was her own screaming and embarrassment boiled through her but when she looked round , bodies were twitching and smoking everywhere as the computer-banks sparked into flame . |
| 21 | But when she looked again , she realized that they were too far away from each other for that to have been possible . |
| 22 | But when she looked away , Maria Iñes tugged at her arm . |
| 23 | She did not feel afraid , but when she looked down at her hands she saw that they were shaking . |
| 24 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 25 | She tingled with apprehension but when she looked back it was Edouard . |
| 26 | It was laughable , really , but when she looked back on her nervous apprehension regarding his overwhelming sexual magnetism she almost felt like weeping with frustration . |
| 27 | But when she reached out a hesitant hand , the heat from the liquid was so intense that she could not get any nearer to it . |
| 28 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 29 | It was a small back room at the back of the house , little more than a box , but when she pressed down the switch of the low-voltage nursery light she felt again a glow of maternal , proprietorial pride . |
| 30 | She did n't have either the time or the inclination to hold ‘ receptions ’ — whatever they might be — but when she returned home at night , exhausted from her day in the City , she never failed to appreciate the deep sense of peaceful calm and serenity of the large , thickly carpeted room . |