Example sentences of "[verb] when she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had only offered to use the truncheon as a sex aid but desisted when she shook her head . |
| 2 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 3 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 4 | The woman had become suicidally depressed while pregnant with her previous two children and was devastated when she found herself accidentally pregnant again . |
| 5 | Eva admits she " may have been a bit impetuous in those early days " , but she was always willing to learn , and apologise when she realised she had overstepped the mark . |
| 6 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 7 | She had her back to the door and was standing at a filing-cabinet taking out more information she would need when she heard her assistant come back . |
| 8 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 9 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 10 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 11 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |
| 12 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 13 | Maggie exclaimed when she saw her sister framed in the kitchen doorway . |
| 14 | She stopped when she saw me , wound the window down . |
| 15 | It stopped when she lifted her palm , and came through again when she put it back . |
| 16 | She knew why he sounded so strangled when she saw herself . |
| 17 | ‘ Need for subplots , ’ he muttered when she thought he was asleep . |
| 18 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 19 | What had she felt when she saw him dead ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 21 | Eating his bacon and eggs , ‘ Sunny-side up , ’ Sally-Anne had once said when she put his plate before him , drinking his coffee — he preferred it to everlasting tea , he said — he looked much better than he had done the day before ; no midnight drinking , Sally-Anne thought . |
| 22 | What was it his girl friend , Sandy Riverton , had said when she called him in the middle of the night ? |
| 23 | She wondered how she would feel when she saw him again . |
| 24 | ‘ I said I wondered how she would feel when she knows her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her … |
| 25 | ‘ How do you think she 'll feel when she knows you helped brand her father a murderer ? ’ |
| 26 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 27 | The soft little click the door made when she closed it caused him to turn his head , and not by one flicker of an eyelash did he betray any emotion of her entrance . |
| 28 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 29 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 30 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |