Example sentences of "when she was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 2 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 3 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 4 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I 'll take you , ’ Fabia replied without hesitation , and was about to add that she would be on the same flight with her when she was halted by a change in Cara 's expression . |
| 6 | Mandy did n't have a very good start in life when she was rejected by her mother only minutes after birth . |
| 7 | Melissa pictured Sybil with her head cocked , the way she held it when she was listening to someone , gazing with exaggerated , wide-eyed intensity . |
| 8 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 9 | She peered through the glass door , half inclined to look for Dana in the bigger stores , when she was riveted by the sight of her twin appearing from behind a curtain . |
| 10 | When she was thinking about having an abortion nobody told her to have it . |
| 11 | And it was then , when she was thinking about going away to Vienna , that she had begun to feel trapped . |
| 12 | Did a bitch do more than submit when she was mounted by a strange dog in the street , held down by his teeth in the loose flesh of her neck to keep her still and ensure his better satisfaction ? |
| 13 | ‘ Which she received at twenty to nine , when she was dressing for her wedding ? ’ |
| 14 | She did not protest when she was led towards the door . |
| 15 | Evelyn King was 15 and singing while hard at work sweeping a Philadelphia studio when she was heard by producer T-Life . |
| 16 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 17 | Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head . |
| 18 | A CAT was the victim of a cruel attack when she was shot in the neck by a pellet . |
| 19 | The Ithusheng Community Association was founded more than 10 years ago by well-known South African physician and political activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele , when she was banished to the rural village of Lenyenye in one of the so-called black homelands in the North Eastern Transvaal . |
| 20 | When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke . |
| 21 | ‘ You did and so did I. ’ He looked up at her when she was seated on a calm grey horse . |
| 22 | When she was seated beside him Daniel 's discomfort was noticeable . |
| 23 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 24 | Caroline Little 's first recreational class in Rowlands Castle village hall led to many more in the surrounding area of HAMPSHIRE especially when she was joined by Anne Locke and Sarah Smith ( both now living and teaching Medau in France ) and Wendy Middleton . |
| 25 | TROUBLED Princess Di had a smash in her £72,000 supercar last night — when she was rammed from behind by POLICE . |
| 26 | To infer the existence of such a duty from the mere possibility that the mother was with child when she was received as a passenger by the defendants would be to act without the sanction of any judicial decision or , in my opinion , of any legal principle . |
| 27 | Police said she had suffered a terrible blow to the back of her head but was still alive when she was tossed into the water . |
| 28 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 29 | Stephen Whitley 's widow Constance Whitley , 34 , told Cheshire 's deputy Coroner John Pollard , how she was in their terrace home in Mill Lane , Great Sutton , on the evening of March 4 , when she was alerted to the fire by sounds coming from the garage , a few yards from the house . |
| 30 | We were delighted when she was kennelled with another dog , John , whom she absolutely idolised . |