Example sentences of "when she [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judy Rumbold , the fashion editor of The Guardian , could n't have been more wrong when she wrote about trainers ( August 21 , 1989 ) : ‘ In Tom Wolfe 's Bonfire Of The Vanities , sneakers are documented as an intrusive part of young American street style ; not just symbols of black affiliation and for high performance on the dancefloor but as crucial elements in maintaining a lugubrious , rhythmic gait that Wolfe coined the Pimp Roll . |
| 2 | But Margaret laughed at him , and when she heard about a new God who sacrificed only himself , and gave bread and sweet wine to the people , she became a Christian . |
| 3 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 4 | Mother Francis had acted swiftly when she heard about Eve . |
| 5 | Jackie , 23 , of Bristol , said later she suspected 30-year-old Graham planned to pop the question when she heard about the Radio 5 link-up from Barcelona . |
| 6 | ‘ Why are you always in trouble , Anne ? ’ asked Marilla , when she heard about Anne 's adventure . |
| 7 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |
| 8 | He had begun to walk on when she asked about Tavett . |
| 9 | And when she asked about his family , he told her about his father being a sergeant , and his mother leaving him , hating all the moving . |
| 10 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope I 'm not around when she learns about the alterations to the house . |
| 12 | Leaping out of bed , she threw the window open and yelled , ‘ Stop that noise or you 'll wake the neighbours and Aunt Louise will be furious when she hears about it . |
| 13 | ‘ How do you think wifey number two will react when she hears about all the goings-on ? |
| 14 | Well , this Christine is from Haslington Machine Knitting Club and when she read about the plight of the Romanians she resolved to do something about it — but what ? |
| 15 | When she read about his new marriage she said , The yellow press have caught him , poor boy . |
| 16 | It was taking a risk , when she thought about it , to go to the seaside in September . |
| 17 | When she thought about Simon , she felt herself taking a step into another world . |
| 18 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 19 | She closed her eyes , concentrating once again on her tightening fingers , trying not to think of Richie Daly and the Emma Bates ; trying not to weep when she thought about the waste of a good life , of fifty good lives . |
| 20 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 21 | That seemed , when she thought about it , almost as good as saying for ever . |
| 22 | When she thought about it later , something about the visit left her feeling uneasy . |
| 23 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 24 | When she thought about it , it was hard to recall a time when she had n't felt worried , in some vague , insubstantial yet unsettling way , about her parents . |
| 25 | Bella shook her head as she had shaken it since childhood when she thought about her sister 's foolishness in almost everything . |
| 26 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 27 | But when she thought about the future , about staying at home , then marrying Georg and just moving over the ridge , and starting there and then to have babies and spend every day in the dairy the way her mother did , a terrible sense of panic overtook her . |
| 28 | When she thought about living the rest of her life with that bad-tempered , stingy , humourless Georg , she felt like bursting into tears . |
| 29 | It was then , when she thought about it , that she decided that she was just a little fed up with the bossy brute . |
| 30 | ‘ Sn-snuggled … ? ’ she spluttered , but , when she thought about it — and with the memory so recent , it took less than a second — she had to concede that perhaps ‘ snuggled ’ was n't so very far off the mark . |