Example sentences of "that when she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 2 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 3 | I remember that when she came to the House she was , like her leader , a passionate supporter of CND . |
| 4 | It would be easier now his mother was dead — though Clemence had n't known that when she wrote . |
| 5 | She had imagined , in her ingenuous way that when she married it would be a combination of that quayside romance with the close sexual intensity she had known with Martin Dickenson in the cabin . |
| 6 | Effeminate , spoilt and faithless , he was a bitter disappointment to her , and was so thoroughly despised by the rest of the Court that when she became pregnant there were rumours about the child having possibly been fathered by one of her favourites . |
| 7 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 8 | And so it did n't really make sense that when she lay in bed half an hour later , with images of the evening playing themselves chaotically in her mind , her mood was rather blue and wistful . |
| 9 | She swore to herself that when she grew up she would not wait so long between courses . |
| 10 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 11 | Arthur said : ‘ We wondered if she would like a little sponsorship and agreed that when she competed we 'd give her some meat . |
| 12 | Mrs Wood has found that John can be distracted from this early morning behaviour by food , so that when she wakes up at about 7.30am she can put on the TV for him ( he likes the advertisements for toys ) and give him crisps , peanuts and a tin of Coke . |
| 13 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 14 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 15 | I do n't know why ’ Constanza told me that when she told me so little else . |
| 16 | way she says , that when she sell that book . |
| 17 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 18 | The bad thing was that when she woke in the morning she could remember nothing about it . |
| 19 | So deeply and dreamlessly that when she woke she could n't think at first where she was ; nor place the strange noise at the back of her head . |
| 20 | I said to Ted : ‘ We 'll say that when she went for the tram , the dog run after her . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Totteridge asserted that when she went to check her goat in St Benet churchyard at 1 pm , she had found the goat wandering loose without a collar and the door of the church open . |
| 22 | Telling them all that when she went swimming with her father she could do the crawl and so many other strokes . |
| 23 | ‘ It was only when they came to see me and talked about it that he found out that when she went to bed it was to get ready for sex , while he stayed downstairs because he thought she was n't interested . ’ |
| 24 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 25 | The yellow steps rose in steep flights but now it was clear that when she reached the top she would also be at the bottom , starting out . |
| 26 | A woman told me recently that when she said that she would prefer not to have one , her obstetrician exclaimed : ‘ Not have an enema ? |
| 27 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 28 | She found herself thinking that when she had forced herself to read how and when Oreste had died she would take her sleeping baby and drown both him and herself forthwith . |
| 29 | How could she think that when she had in fact entrammelled herself in terrible evil bonds , luxuriating even in her bondage ? |
| 30 | 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 . |