Example sentences of "[noun] when she be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd gone into labour when she was told about the Antelope , and Martin was born about a month premature . |
| 2 | was the first time you went to Malton when she was born ? |
| 3 | May you have to hold your mum 's wool when she 's knitting . |
| 4 | She had spoken to Cissie about ensuring that the door was locked in future when she was taking a bath . |
| 5 | Well we counted twenty and then we were laughing so much we thought oh we 'd better stop her you know twenty sort of goes from one side to the side when she 's lying on her stomach . |
| 6 | When she went to South Africa on holiday she deliberately stood in the queue designated for " blacks " at the Post Office counter , and left in disgust when she was told to queue in the area reserved for whites . |
| 7 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 8 | Her arm was like this only ever such a little hand and if you , she used to go and it just sort of reached your earhole when she was walking past you and if you were talking in class she 'd go . |
| 9 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 10 | Leapor 's ‘ An Essay on Friendship ’ is more comprehensive rebuttal of Pope 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ( see below ) , yet it is evident that Leapor also has the poem in mind when she is writing ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ . |
| 11 | She could not have packed a more unsuitable set of garments for tonight 's escapade , but then no such prospect had even crossed her mind when she was leaving London . |
| 12 | She was walking home from a party in the early hours of Sunday morning she 'd stopped to use the toilets in St Giles when she was attacked … |
| 13 | Yeah I just told her to put the top on the pen when she was having a drink , because she had the pen in her hand |
| 14 | It was strange that she had never thought of him before , for she now remembered how quickly he had learnt poetry when she was helping him learn to read . |
| 15 | BRITAIN 'S smallest baby Kelsey Oakes — who weighed just 1lb 3ozs when she was born nearly four months early — is finally home from hospital . |
| 16 | He was understandably apprehensive when Diana made her first speech partly in Welsh at Cardiff City Hall when she was presented with the Freedom of the City . |
| 17 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 18 | I say Mum calls me Anthony when she 's telling me off . |
| 19 | Her central happiness irradiated the rest of her life , from important happenings , down to her mood when she was doing trivial things . |
| 20 | A simple X-ray spotted an inch-long needle left in the 56-year-old mum 's bottom when she was giving birth to her daughter , Jane , in Rotherham , Yorks . |
| 21 | To infer the existence of such a duty from the mere possibility that the mother was with child when she was received as a passenger by the defendants would be to act without the sanction of any judicial decision or , in my opinion , of any legal principle . |
| 22 | Dad 's was a carver and Mum 's had shortened legs because , being only 4 feet 10 inches tall , the lower chair was a great help when she was nursing us as babies . |
| 23 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 24 | He 'll buy her a small gift when she 's made an exceptional contribution . |
| 25 | But oh , what a difference when she 's marries Boaz What a difference then . |
| 26 | Her sisters Sarah and Jane , her senior by six and four years respectively , were already spending mornings in the downstairs classroom when she was born and by the time Diana was ready to join them they were packing their bags for boarding-school . |
| 27 | Murphy , real name Morpho Ppeleides , was a freak of nature when she was born at Butterfly World in Stockton , Cleveland . |
| 28 | Drawing once again on the detective genre , Pynchon complicates the linear hunt for information , partly by rendering every detail as ambiguous as possible and partly by having Oedipa literally go round in a huge circle when she is pursuing an ‘ underground ’ mail courier . |
| 29 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 30 | I knew she 'd better be told , otherwise she 'd get a bonnie fright when she was stopped at the paydesk and accused of shoplifting . |