Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] her " in BNC.

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1 When I registered her death I was surprised to find myself giving this as her trade , because learned history implies that only the traditional ones — tailoring , weaving , joining , welding — are real .
2 When I saw her crying , with her neck all swollen , I wanted to lash out at the doctor who 'd done this to her .
3 Do you know she 's now , she was quite cuddly , she was fat in the pregnancy when I saw her last time .
4 In the it 's only just till the rep comes he said , when I saw her last week she said like you know , he had n't been if he
5 I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry .
6 Sure enough , when I manipulated her hip joints while she was still fast asleep from her anaesthetic I could almost pull the balls out of the sockets .
7 Her face was wrinkled with age but she looked friendly and her voice was pleasant when I heard her talk to the men .
8 I remember the shock of fear when I heard her scream and the sickening jolt of pain through my stomach when I saw the angle of her hand to her arm .
9 When I asked her things like that , she did n't want to tell me on other occasions , she said I know that I ca n't tell you .
10 The clouds had thickened and the moon had gone when I left her house and made my way cautiously down the slippery brick path .
11 Newman himself recounts what transpired : ‘ The scene went something like this when I demanded her presence in my office :
12 When I reached her window ,
13 None of the servants seemed at all curious about her , but I once heard two of the maids talking , and I listened when I caught her name .
14 At first I had thought she would recover , but when I learned her illness was serious , I decided to visit her at night , for what might be the last time .
15 She was not feeling in her sunniest humour as she wondered if she was going to have to wait all day tomorrow for her summons , when someone rang her doorbell .
16 She was in the middle of making a salad dressing when someone rang her doorbell .
17 She was studying the menu outside a restaurant when someone called her name .
18 She was back at her car , stowing her purchases , when someone called her name .
19 ‘ I noticed that when you moved her arm . ’
20 ‘ So if you did n't kill Nicola , why did n't you call the police when you found her body ? ’
21 She remembered incidents vividly and , when she wrote her books , she had their letters to each other and all his notebooks ( most of which are now in the Berg Collection ) , carefully dated between November '95 and June '97 .
22 Similarly Julian was nor afraid to put her own words and reflections onto the lips of Christ when she wrote her book .
23 She 'd hardly reached the closet when she heard her father 's voice .
24 After a while when the sickness had subsided , she opened the door and was about to creep cautiously away , when she heard her father speak some words that halted her : ‘ Who 's to blame for the club nights , I ask you ? ’ he was saying .
25 Jenny , now happily married , cried when she heard her torturer was dead and said : ‘ I 'm relieved I will never again feel my stomach churn when a man with his silhouette passes me in the street ’ .
26 She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name .
27 ‘ Two days ! ’ she interposed , trying to lace her voice with sarcasm , furious when she heard her protest come out breathy and shaken .
28 But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her .
29 She had her back to the door and was standing at a filing-cabinet taking out more information she would need when she heard her assistant come back .
30 Leith 's thoughts were still suspended in mid-air , when she heard her name called .
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