Example sentences of "when she [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 2 | When she had spread out the tea-things , Mrs Syms said : |
| 3 | When she had put down the phone , Sandra leapt out of her seat . |
| 4 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 5 | She had been discovered as a fourteen-year-old Moscow prostitute when she decided to take on the whole of a KGB barrackroom who were in need of relief . |
| 6 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |