Example sentences of "[conj] when she [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except when she 's got the cars out |
| 2 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 3 | Telling them all that when she went swimming with her father she could do the crawl and so many other strokes . |
| 4 | Mrs Totteridge asserted that when she went to check her goat in St Benet churchyard at 1 pm , she had found the goat wandering loose without a collar and the door of the church open . |
| 5 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 6 | Miss Armstrong said that when she had visited Wolsingham Comprehensive School , one of the first users of the Echo on CD-Rom , she had been kept on her toes by the fact that the pupils were well-informed about things she had said and done . |
| 7 | She had looked twice that when she had limped into her cousin Mandy 's apartment in Vernon , in the Okanagan Valley , burnt out , exhausted , disillusioned and emotional . |
| 8 | It was something of a relief , however , that when she had finished a final small ice-cream , and drunk a cup of coffee , Ven called for the bill . |
| 9 | She found herself thinking that when she had forced herself to read how and when Oreste had died she would take her sleeping baby and drown both him and herself forthwith . |
| 10 | He hated the way she said to him , ‘ Tell me tomorrow darling , I must fly now , ’ and the way that when she 'd waved Bye-bye and got into the taxi , she immediately opened her bag and took out her mirror and comb , and did n't look at you again , even if the taxi did n't move for ages , because the man was changing the meter or talking into his radio . |
| 11 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 12 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 13 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 14 | It is therefore quite ironic that when she wants to influence Eunice she can not . |
| 15 | But it was to no avail — she was no nearer the McPhersons than when she 'd started . |
| 16 | It some ways it was worse than when she 'd fled Rocamar because now there was this new memory to contend with , and she had seen how marvellous Marc looked even in the chaos of a big city , away from the romantic backdrop of the mountains . |
| 17 | The rain was still battering down she noted , and from the sound of it even heavier than when she 'd got into bed . |
| 18 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 19 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 20 | At first she did n't recognise him , he was so much taller , so much gawkier than when she had seen him last . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , she still weighed more than when she had floated in Witwaterstrand . |
| 22 | Rather more docile than when she had entered , Frau Nordern agreed that she would give notice , ample notice , more than enough notice to make sure that they had the room and raised her glass in salute as the manager beamed on Erika and then withdrew to welcome the first of his evening guests , stout , prosperous looking men in heavy dark suits : officials , with their wives . |
| 23 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 24 | The sitting-room was tidier than when she had left it . |
| 25 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 26 | Her voice , her body , her smell were as familiar to him as his own , but essentially he knew no more about her now than when she had arrived . |
| 27 | They walked together towards the street , her body heavy but her heart lighter than when she had come . |
| 28 | She took the thermometer from his mouth , and when she continued to stare at it he was Unable to keep the note of anxiety out of his voice . |
| 29 | She 'd be better looking for a job , and when she gets give a |
| 30 | It was er and when she got worked up about that Fancy Goods place |