Example sentences of "when she [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 When she returned to the UK , however , she entered into the restaurant and hotel business with her husband Gordon .
3 When she returned to the kitchen , Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar 's eyes .
4 When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her .
5 When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire .
6 As she went from the room , Beth could hear Cissie moaning behind her , and knew they would be going through the same old argument when she returned to the kitchen .
7 She knew what she would use to make the mask , but when she returned to the glade where , yesterday , she had visited the Moondream rajathuk , she found it quite destroyed .
8 Aaron 's company director mum Leah , 36 , only discovered what had happened when she returned to the centre after work .
9 When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up .
10 There was no reply , and when she returned to the living-room she found Vitor sprawled in the armchair , fast asleep .
11 When she returned to the ward the foot of the bed was elevated to tip the bed to an angle of 45 .
12 When she returned to the house , she found everything as they had left it and the fire still burning .
13 He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback .
14 When she returned to the house in late afternoon , Ellie 's determination to put a few pertinent questions to Mrs McMahon and then leave was thwarted — deliberately , probably — by Feargal , who was with his mother in the lounge .
15 When she returned to the house , she found Sam skipping on the terrace like a child .
16 When she returned to the room with the salted hot water , Frank and May between them had lifted Andrew on to the bed , and there he was propped up and breathing very heavily now .
17 She escaped her sister 's gimlet gaze when she returned to the privacy of her own apartment .
18 When she returned to the drawing-room , she found that Charles , Alix and Esther were discussing , with much animation , the Italian economy .
19 Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later .
20 When she returned to the bedroom she was carrying a flannel .
21 When she returned to the bedroom , clad only in a towel , he was already in bed , and he smiled softly .
22 When she returned to the bedroom , Jamie was awake .
23 When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them .
24 His wife Ina , 64 , said she heard a scuffle going on outside , but when she got to the door the two youths had already fled .
25 Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian .
26 When she got to the theatre she found her dressing room was full of flowers — Willi again .
27 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 .
28 When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on .
29 She bravely did her best to ignore it when she got to the studio and was quite successful in separating her professional and eventful private life .
30 When she got to the terrace there were four faces looking at her .
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