Example sentences of "when she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
| 2 | And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know . |
| 3 | ‘ Pity to shut you away down here , ’ Mr Priddy said gruffly when she thanked him for his recommendation . |
| 4 | Johnson did not drink her proffered dram , but Boswell and the two guides did , and when she asked them for snuff , her great luxury , they had none , but gave her money instead . |
| 5 | He seemed distracted when she asked him about Island Trading 's reliability . |
| 6 | When she told her of the plan to marry the child 's feelings came out . |
| 7 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
| 8 | She was n't lying when she told me about him and she lies awake at night crying for him . |
| 9 | But , when she told me about your affair with her , instead of talking it out with you I allowed it to fester in my mind . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 11 | She knows that wanting to look good , or sexy , does n't mean she 's ‘ asking for it ’ , but that belief was shaken by a recent incident , and by the overprotective reaction of her brother to her when she told him about it . |
| 12 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |
| 13 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 14 | He would n't like being made a fool of , even it was largely his own fault for refusing to believe her when she told him about Dana . |
| 15 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 16 | ‘ It must have been terrible when she told you about Nicola 's affair with Parkin . |
| 17 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 18 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , she had deep and peaceful eyes , and when she passed me by she only smiled ; she asked me for nothing . |
| 20 | She was happy when she starved herself of new clothes and expensive hairdressers , her bun gone , her blonde hair cut short , strict and styleless , by a merciless local hairdresser . |
| 21 | Her eyes were cold when she lifted them to Piper 's face . |
| 22 | And they were still chatting comfortably with each other when she rejoined them in the living-room , feeling very much like a spare part . |
| 23 | When she wore 'em into Rugely They impressed the people hugely , While in Fordham folk adores 'em And they loved 'em in West Looe ! |
| 24 | Her foot , when she explored it with her fingers , had a couple of thorns stuck in it and was bleeding . |
| 25 | ‘ Ready ? ’ she asked quietly when she ran her to earth in the lounge . |
| 26 | There was a plastic model of Redd Harvest 's G-Mek V12 ‘ Nola Gay in the packet of krill , but the wheels fell off when she ran it across the table . |
| 27 | She could hardly bear to think she would never see this pretty place again , nor speak with the cheerful villagers , drink beer in María 's café and get hugs from the children when she saw them in Miguel 's clinic . |
| 28 | At the James Bulger trial , a woman has told the court how she confronted two boys and the frightened toddler when she saw him with injuries , but was told he 'd fallen and was being taken home . |
| 29 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 30 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |