Example sentences of "[noun sg] when she [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she entered the villa , her heart thudded with abrupt violence when she saw that Damian Flint was still there , in the living-room , playing chess with Charles . |
| 2 | So she sat down very happily with her tea when she saw that Tom had accepted a cup as well and had brought in an extra chair from the sitting-room . |
| 3 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 4 | Lee had felt the emotional voltage in the room heighten to a point when she thought that Philippa would slam the door behind her , hard , but the door closed as gently as if there were a baby asleep in the house . |
| 5 | She had just identified the object as a large flat piece of cardboard when she realised that footsteps behind her had carried on . |
| 6 | Her eyebrows rose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place . |
| 7 | Though fate laughed hollowly at her elbow when she recalled that , from the harsh way he had left her , he 'd be doing his utmost to avoid accidentally bumping into her anyway . |
| 8 | Such a fleeting allegiance was common amongst Surrealism 's female associates : Frida Kahlo never joined up at all , and she spoke for many of the women who where connected with Surrealism when she declared that Breton and his circle ‘ thought I was a Surrealist , but I was n't . |
| 9 | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but , to add insult to injury , allowed him , believing her to be someone else , to house her and feed her into the bargain . |
| 10 | She seems a little slow off the mark when she asserts that the attempt to control drugs became ‘ a War only when crack emrged ’ . |
| 11 | JEWELLER Carol Darby could not suppress a smile when she heard that Princess Anne 's engagement and wedding rings had been made by royal jewellers Garrard . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 13 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 14 | Her heart missed a beat when she saw that he 'd brought the Dane with him . |
| 15 | A Greenspan protege , Fed governor Susan Phillips , made the bank 's official comment when she conceded that ‘ fundamental imbalances ’ in the economy ‘ have begun to abate , ’ paving the way for a more vigourous and sustained expansion . |
| 16 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 17 | She 'd checked the impulse when she realised that since Travis was being man enough not to ask that of her she really could not interfere , only for Rosemary to reiterate all she had told Travis before . |
| 18 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 19 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 20 | A more general sense of difficulty in sustaining order and regularity in the early twentieth century underlies Lily Briscoe 's comments in To the Lighthouse when she remarks that an artist 's brush may be the ‘ one dependable thing in a world of strife , ruin , chaos ’ ( Woolf 1927 and 1973 : 170 ) . |
| 21 | Outrage turned to agitation when she saw that he was jamming the key in the lock with such force that the flesh on his fingers was turning white . |
| 22 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 23 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 24 | She beat a retreat when she realised that she was going to get nothing further out of him . |
| 25 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 26 | Mrs Coates came up with the idea when she realised that young people were finding their way into adult bars or congregating in the streets . |
| 27 | The sociologist Bernice Martin has perceptively summed up the situation in terms of recent English culture when she says that : |
| 28 | Miss Sigrid Hemse , spinster of Gotland , Sweden fell foul of Mr Geller in a most unexpected way when she discovered that she was pregnant . |
| 29 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 30 | So their affair was begun , their part-time affair , as Maria took to calling it , at first only to herself , but then aloud in Luke 's presence when she discovered that it could bring a quick frown to his face . |