Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 4 | Melissa had barely turned the key in the ignition when she began to speak in a brittle , staccato voice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , she still weighed more than when she had floated in Witwaterstrand . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | When she had rung in response to the advertisement card on the board in the Tadley Post Office , she had n't thought of where the classes might be . |
| 10 | She had already thrown yesterday 's damp tea-leaves on to the parlour carpet , and when she had finished in the surgery would take a small , hard hand-brush and , down on her knees yet again , would painstakingly sweep them all up into a dustpan , to remove the previous day 's dirt and dust , Miss Mates said , and purify the air . |
| 11 | When she got married in a red wedding dress well oh dear me . |
| 12 | There was a tumble-drier in the kitchen ; she had seen it when she 'd gone in there to call Anne . |
| 13 | Just as her mother had done when she 'd arrived in Athens so many years before . |
| 14 | A pupil of Gustav Holst at St Paul 's Girls School , Ramsey was devoted to music and as a flautist she played in the Cumberland Symphony Orchestra when she went to live in Cumbria . |
| 15 | Léonie chose to use the basket Madeleine carried when she went shopping in the village . |
| 16 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |