Example sentences of "but when she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was often offered lifts , but when she said , thank you , but she was going for a walk , a pitying expression spread over the faces of the drivers . |
| 2 | She showed the dresses to Philip , who laughed at them , but when she said she would get something for them , quite a lot , shrugged , unwillingly respectful . |
| 3 | But when she said we were going by Concorde , that , to an engineering student , was it . ’ |
| 4 | In the kitchen she found Ling busily filling the two food hampers , but when she offered to help his refusal was firm but polite . |
| 5 | But when she goes into the economics of food , admits the ‘ luxury ’ of aesthetic choice , and gets John Berger off the charge of ‘ bourgeois pastoral ’ or ‘ the consolatory celebration of a fictive rusticity ’ , you have a writer for whom politics was never a mere function of style . |
| 6 | Her current job is marketing controller for South East sales region , but when she left University she at first had no idea what she wanted to do . |
| 7 | But when she read Brian 's application , she decided to nab him for herself . |
| 8 | The gown was long , seemingly demure — but when she shifted her weight , he caught a flash of her thigh , and when she turned — God , when she turned , he could see the length of her naked spine … |
| 9 | But when she glanced at him she saw he was supporting his chin on one hand and gazing directly at her . |
| 10 | Supposed to be going down on weekend of fifteenth but when she phones on Thursday I 'm going to tell her to come during the week . |
| 11 | Her large black hat covered most of her face , but when she lifted her head , I saw her dark eyes . |
| 12 | Cos underneath it , I mean it did n't look nice but when she lifted it up it 's how mine was , like it is now , flat underneath . |
| 13 | She felt she could never forgive herself , but when she got there , the beauty of the place overcame her again . |
| 14 | But when she got outside and began to rearrange her belongings to fit more neatly in the bicycle basket , Elisabeth Danziger found a bar of fleur-de-lis soap and a cube of rose geranium bath crystals in her hand . |
| 15 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 16 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 17 | But when she got to know him better she was to realise that he treated all women , servants or otherwise , as if they were ladies . |
| 18 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 19 | She was lying so still Carrie thought she was dead , but when she got up to run and call Hepzibah she saw that her chest was still moving and knew she was only asleep . |
| 20 | On the first morning , after a night in a Lycée bed , they all went to a preliminary reception at the Hôtel de Ville : Clara went , politely willing , but when she got there she found that it was a gigantic , milling , stifling insult . |
| 21 | But when she got back and dialled Alix 's number , Alix was out . |
| 22 | But when she got into the car at five , ready for the fifteen-mile drive across London , it would n't start . |
| 23 | But when she got to prison all her mates were telling her , ‘ No , no , you do n't talk to a prisoner like that , you talk to her sharp . ’ |
| 24 | For example — I feel disgusted and ashamed — I took my little girl down to my mum 's and I swear to God I remember dressing her — it was winter — but when she got to my mum 's house I took her out of the buggy and all she had on was her nappy and her socks and a blanket wrapped round her . |
| 25 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 26 | But when she got to the flat she found it ransacked . |
| 27 | She sang , she danced , but when she got onto her swing , all the men stood up . |
| 28 | The sickness lightened a little and her spirits rose , but when she got up she felt sticky warmth between her thighs . |
| 29 | But when she got there the ferryman was not around . |
| 30 | But when she got there , she found that Mrs Porter had just finished the task . |