Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 2 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 3 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 4 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 5 | ‘ Leith never said anything about agreeing to marry you when I saw her in the — ’ Travis left his own unhappy thoughts to start to exclaim . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 7 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 8 | When I confronted her with the chapter and verse of her part in arranging for tip the press off about her visit to Mrs Bartholomew , she was adamant in her denials . |
| 9 | Certainly , when I watched her in the St Trinian 's films , I knew I was watching someone who not only knew all of the people I knew , but could do a wicked job of ‘ taking them off ’ ! |
| 10 | When she told her of the plan to marry the child 's feelings came out . |
| 11 | She said it to Daphne when she phoned her after the weather forecast . |
| 12 | When we followed her into the bedroom she ordered us out , saying it was no place for kids . |
| 13 | She came to for a bit when we brought her into the light , but I had difficulty following what she said . |
| 14 | PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . |
| 15 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 16 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 17 | The Quaker mother , who was so astonished by the ignorance of the police when they questioned her about the way she and her family worshipped , said her faith remained strong . |
| 18 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 19 | Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway . |
| 20 | He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture . |
| 21 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
| 22 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 23 | Close to , she discovered , Pete smelled of carbolic soap , a dreadful turn-off , and when he kissed her in the dark it was so wet and sloppy she longed only to search for her handkerchief and wipe her mouth dry . |
| 24 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 25 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 26 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 27 | ‘ Agent Somerville , ’ he boomed when he heard her on the line , ‘ get after him . ’ |
| 28 | And for herself , Robert thought , remembering her disappointed distance when he extracted her from the culvert . |
| 29 | Xanthe stiffened by his side , when he plucked her by the sleeve and nodded to the meter , ‘ Look at that . ’ |
| 30 | She was aware of Mr Carson looking at her , and when he handed her into the carriage to sit beside Ruth she felt quite the lady . |