Example sentences of "[adv] when she [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 2 | Not so when she went into the shop , carrying the family chicken-feed tin , to whisper , ‘ Pet-a-torn , please . ’ |
| 3 | But it was n't large enough to button and showed her blouse and skirt , and so when she appeared in the yard again Ben , standing ready by the cart , grinned at her , saying , ‘ That 's nice ! |
| 4 | So I tiptoed downstairs when she knocked at the door |
| 5 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
| 6 | She grasped the light covering and was about to throw it off when she realised from the fabric 's texture that her own cotton skirt had been laid over her . |
| 7 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 8 | Kellett-Bowman ) made that point eloquently when she intervened during the Secretary of State 's speech . |
| 9 | She 'd arranged with the school for me to see her results and report later when she phoned from the villa . |
| 10 | Now when she pirouetted before the wardrobe mirror , Martha was transformed . |
| 11 | Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job . |
| 12 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 13 | The blonde woman was always elegantly dressed and absolutely immaculate , even when she came off the beach , her hair neatly pinned up in a French pleat or out of sight under a chic floppy straw hat . |
| 14 | He walked by her side without touching her , even when she tripped on the uneven turf , and she knew she had destroyed anything there might have been . |
| 15 | Widow Mary Todd , 64 , met Bill Raisbeck six months ago when she moved into the same sheltered housing scheme at Thornaby , Cleveland . |
| 16 | She was spurred on to write 10 years ago when she appeared in The Gentle Touch , the TV series about a top woman cop . |
| 17 | I said , I told her to ring here when she finished at the |
| 18 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 19 | He was talking to James , and stopped abruptly when she came into the room . |
| 20 | But her heart failed her again when she looked towards the tower , and at the high princess sitting by her window , all dressed in fur and silver . |