Example sentences of "when she [is] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when she 's curled on my honoured knee , |
| 2 | The bashful , wounded virginity , such coy shrinking to inflame the passions even more — as I know to my cost — and then , when she 's finished with you , rejection . |
| 3 | But she 's secretly ambivalent about her friends and an open breach looms when she 's drawn to charismatic outsider J.D. who seduces her into an apparently humorous plan of attack . |
| 4 | He is thoroughly domesticated and loves cooking elaborate meals for her when she is absorbed in her work . |
| 5 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 6 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |
| 7 | This was first apparent in The Quest ( 1943 ) where the arabesques danced in many ways became the movement through which Una ( danced by Margot Fonteyn ) expressed the emotions aroused when she is assailed by the four false Knights and then her joy when rescued by St. George . |