Example sentences of "when [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 2 | Child runs away and hides when she is called . |
| 3 | When she is stabled she may be vitamin A , D and E deficient . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Leapor 's ‘ An Essay on Friendship ’ is more comprehensive rebuttal of Pope 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ( see below ) , yet it is evident that Leapor also has the poem in mind when she is writing ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ . |
| 6 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 7 | He is thoroughly domesticated and loves cooking elaborate meals for her when she is absorbed in her work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Drawing once again on the detective genre , Pynchon complicates the linear hunt for information , partly by rendering every detail as ambiguous as possible and partly by having Oedipa literally go round in a huge circle when she is pursuing an ‘ underground ’ mail courier . |
| 10 | That she is more liable to leave work just when she is getting most useful [ in other words ] there are more changes in a crowd of women workers than in a crowd of men workers.32 |
| 11 | It is equally important when she is wearing a soft tunic or one-piece tights and leotard . |
| 12 | When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So she go to Palestine to meet with them , and she then meet you with boat in Aden when she is coming home again , you remember , ja ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , phone subservient Maria Luisa while you 're at it and find out when she is coming back because I 'm fed up with … with … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In a couple or family contract the patient and his partner , for example , may undertake to do things on a reciprocal basis ( e.g. a husband agrees to organize weekly social outings for he and his wife , while she agrees to tell him when she is feeling distressed , rather than keeping her feelings to herself ) . |
| 19 | In all your efforts to help her at this crucial time the most important thing to remember is to try to reduce her anxiety by being as relaxed and quietly optimistic about her future as you can , and to restrain her from making any major decisions hastily , regarding such matters as the disposal of property or moving house , as she may regret this later on when she is feeling less depressed . |
| 20 | The student 's understanding of the wide range of topics taught will be tested only when she is required to put it into practice . |
| 21 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although astrology takes up most of her time — when she is filming for breakfast television she is picked up at 5am — she likes cooking and reading . |
| 24 | Finally , you may expect her to go through a period of depression when she is ceasing to try to avoid the reality of her loss . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However when she is heeling and lurching her way to windward the aggregate of the tensions in the shrouds and stays which support the masts is comparable to the ship 's displacement and may thus amount to several thousand tons . |
| 27 | Even Durante , who has a tendency to forget her character when she is dancing , responded at times with an uncharacteristically voluptuous abandon . |
| 28 | Her solicitor will be with her when she is interviewed , he said . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |