Example sentences of "when she is [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Child runs away and hides when she is called .
2 When she is stabled she may be vitamin A , D and E deficient .
3 He says ; ‘ Every woman has an Aphrodite in her who is easily recognized , her chief characteristics being vanity , conniving lust , fertility , and tyranny when she is crossed . ’
4 He is thoroughly domesticated and loves cooking elaborate meals for her when she is absorbed in her work .
5 When she is banished , the familial circle is cracked , a prevalent theme in the play , and the only way forward now is a deterioration of the family unit and of Lear 's mind .
6 When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed .
7 Secondly , in the devouring quality of a human or animal mother when she is driven to reclaim the life to which she has given birth .
8 ‘ No man could come near to imagining the anguish experienced by a woman when she is forced to give away her child so that she herself may live ! ’
9 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 .
10 The student 's understanding of the wide range of topics taught will be tested only when she is required to put it into practice .
11 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 .
12 He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit .
13 Her solicitor will be with her when she is interviewed , he said .
14 Tantrums at this time are common when she is thwarted and she hits out at people and objects when they do not bend to her will .
15 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 .
16 Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue .
17 But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’
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