Example sentences of "when she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she became engaged to Prince Charles Diana referred to her cleaning job in her reply to Lucinda 's letter of congratulation . |
| 2 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 3 | Miss Paula McCloskey , 26 , also injured her other leg when she became entangled in a mincing machine at the M U P factory in Richill , Co Armagh , in June , 1990 , the High Court in Belfast was told yesterday . |
| 4 | A morning off , she took them occasionally when she felt put upon , but this time her ire and suspicion were aimed at him . |
| 5 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 6 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 7 | However , Liz had laughed like a drain when she had commented on how small it sounded . |
| 8 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 9 | Acting as quickly as when she had gone to ground after Nicandra 's Nettie , she took his hand , lightly as a tame bird arriving to perch on a finger ; with a touching confidence in his response , she turned her little monkey 's face up to him , dropped the hand she had touched and , without a backward look led the way to the Ballroom . |
| 10 | Her fingers closed round the small bottle of sleeping tablets Dana had been prescribed when she had stayed with Claudia after a bout of flu . |
| 11 | The men within would then be fired upon through holes in the roof , picked off like pigeons in a cote , Isabel had thought when she had ridden through it earlier . |
| 12 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , she still weighed more than when she had floated in Witwaterstrand . |
| 14 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 15 | With a faint , elusive smile , she recalled a similar sort of feeling when she had yearned after the paperboy when she 'd been fourteen . |
| 16 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 17 | When she had written to Mark Heathwood and to George Wilson , asking whether he had managed to find out whether Raffaella had any chance of getting permission to live in England , Julia pulled a new sheet of writing paper towards her and wrote a chatty , cheerful letter to her mother . |
| 18 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 19 | ‘ He did explain that to us quite often , when she had fallen in love with Europe and the prince proposed , she saw herself in Rome ; the Eternal City , it was always that to her . |
| 20 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 21 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 22 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 23 | Without any warning , she found herself remembering how Julius 's body had felt when she had cannoned into it , just minutes ago . |
| 24 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 25 | When she had graduated from the School of Fashion she had sold her entire degree collection to Lady Jane , a small but exclusive West End boutique , who had greeted her designs with such enthusiasm that she had believed the world was her oyster and everything was about to happen for her . |
| 26 | When she had arrived from France she was supposed to contact friends of her family , but the bag which had contained their address had been lost or stolen . |
| 27 | She had become a golf fan when she had learned of my job and took a highly personal interest in Jack 's performances . |
| 28 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 29 | Perhaps , when she had recovered from this encounter , he could suggest that they become engaged , albeit in an unacknowledged fashion as he could not afford a ring worthy of her . |
| 30 | He did not need any encouragement at all , as she had discovered when she had lunched with him on Tuesday . |