Example sentences of "when she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my brother-in-law was summoned to the help of Mrs McLaren , when she fell into the brook one dark morning , because he was a parish councillor . |
| 2 | But any hope he might have had of sliding his arm round her and trying a tentative first kiss on the drive home was scotched when she fell asleep the moment she got into the car . |
| 3 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 4 | And last month an 18-year-old student at Lady Margaret Hall college broke a leg and injured her spine when she fell out of a window after a pub crawl . |
| 5 | He 'd been there to pick her up when she fell off her first pony ; he 'd taught her to fish and to know about dogs , and whatever mischief she and Francis got up to , he never told a tale . |
| 6 | Chris was three days into a holiday in Cornwall when she fell ill . |
| 7 | She 's wounded , too , in one leg , but she ca n't be moved down to Florence until twenty-four hours have passed because she cracked her head when she fell and there could be concussion . ’ |
| 8 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 9 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 10 | ‘ And when she fell for her thirteenth I said , ‘ Ca n't you get him to leave you alone ’ ( not that that 's what she wanted , knowing her ) , and she said , ‘ Well , what can I do ? |
| 11 | Shivering with fear and the need for haste , Isabel stumbled up the narrow stone staircase , slipping once and bruising her knee when she fell . |
| 12 | He had n't been able to prevent himself from catching her when she fell , and now the feel of her , cradled helplessly against his chest , sent shafts of agony through him . |
| 13 | Had n't Clare been repairing a greenhouse when she fell ? |
| 14 | When she fell asleep , she began to dream . |
| 15 | Suddenly the idea of keeping her enemy close seemed ludicrous — how could she keep him close when she fell apart at the seams every time he was anywhere near her ? |
| 16 | Candy Morris has amazed doctors at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.Just two weeks ago her foot was almost severed when she fell into this shredding machine at her own paper baling business . |
| 17 | Paul Farrow slept in the same room when she fell , too drunk to notice . |
| 18 | Beryl East , an elderly woman from Sussex , died at a north Devon beauty spot when she fell into the flooded East Lyn River while walking with her husband . |
| 19 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 20 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 21 | Certainly it is the Pound of the London years , who had profited from Ford Madox Ford 's pronouncements on diction , that Phyllis Bottome must have had in mind when she wrote : |
| 22 | She remembered incidents vividly and , when she wrote her books , she had their letters to each other and all his notebooks ( most of which are now in the Berg Collection ) , carefully dated between November '95 and June '97 . |
| 23 | Ellen Wilkinson , with the passion of a true crusader who had become an MP for Jarrow , captured the essence of the life of this section of the working class when she wrote : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She described by implication the Pipers ' first impression of him when she wrote that |
| 26 | She claimed to be quoting from the highest rituals when she wrote , |
| 27 | However , when she wrote down ‘ I 'm afraid that if I find a man who loves me … , one evening , she was amazed to find words spilling out on to the paper . |
| 28 | It 's much more Greek , and I see her smiling to herself when she wrote Walter 's words — ‘ It was like a Greek tragedy . |
| 29 | When she wrote that Christmas message the Queen was not only acutely aware that her daughter 's divorce was looming , but also that the marriages of Charles and Andrew had failed miserably . |
| 30 | Similarly Julian was nor afraid to put her own words and reflections onto the lips of Christ when she wrote her book . |