Example sentences of "when she [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 2 | She had gone out to the drug store to get a bottle of milk for Maria 's bedtime cocoa , and when she got back to the suite , Bernie was in her section taking off Maria 's dress . |
| 3 | When she got back to the yard , however , Ricky had other ideas . |
| 4 | When she got back to the bench she saw that she had knocked over one of the shopping bags when she had stood up and a carton of eggs had dropped to the ground . |
| 5 | When she got back to the lodgings she sat down in her room and opened the letter . |
| 6 | The car was ready when she got back to the cottage . |
| 7 | When she got back to the college , she went to the library and looked once more at all the reference books pertaining to Sebastian Denham , in the hope of finding the nature of his wife 's professional distinctions , but she was not successful . |
| 8 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 9 | When she got back to the flats , the leather jacket had gone . |
| 10 | When she got back to the office , both Dr Kent and Sara had gone , and Staff Nurse Target was anxious to start the drugs round with her . |
| 11 | When she got back to the living-room the fire had been replenished , and a small table was set ready for them to eat . |
| 12 | When she got back to the office , Damian called her in abruptly , his voice hard on the intercom . |
| 13 | She could tell by the insignia of his uniform that he did n't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall whose tents were visible at the far end of the park when she cycled up to the house . |
| 14 | When she came back to the house in the evening , Martha told her that the servants had had trouble with Colin . |
| 15 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 16 | When she came out to the sound of splashing and spluttering , she made her way to the end bowl , and there she washed her , face and hands ; but again she was last in the line to run up the stairs and finish her dressing . |
| 17 | The day Ruth walked out of this family — when she went over to the Roman Church — she cut herself off from us . |
| 18 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 19 | When she went down to the sitting-room to pour tea for her mother , the latter was in one of her most waspish moods . |
| 20 | When she went back to the house for her lunch , she told Martha about Dickon 's visit . |
| 21 | When she went back to the kitchen Penry 's tray stood on the counter , the plates satisfactorily empty . |
| 22 | She even made a miniature Guide uniform for one four-year-old tot , and popped her on the back of her bicycle when she went out to the reserve for Guide meetings . |
| 23 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 24 | When she hurried out to the car , carrying her drawing materials which she had shoved hurriedly into a canvas bag , Julius was already sitting in the driving seat . |
| 25 | Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car . |
| 26 | She 's probably lived such a repressed life she goes berserk when she comes out to the West Indies . |