Example sentences of "when she [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she heard them talking of home in her house it was as though it were a foreign country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They talked in this desultory fashion for a few minutes , then when she heard them bid one another goodnight she ducked quickly under her mosquito net and lay down without undressing . |
| 4 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 5 | One youngster who loved to recite to him felt utterly rejected when she heard him remark that ‘ some unsuccessful applicants were no better than this child ’ . |
| 6 | She was deeply upset when she heard him say : ‘ Whatever happens I will always love you . ’ |
| 7 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 8 | She had her back to him when she heard him pick up the mug . |
| 9 | It did n't occur to her that she would get a good shot in … fine aim had never been one of her strong points — so when she heard him shout her name behind her , her instinct as ever was to run . |
| 10 | When she heard him , Carolyn got up quietly , pressing the blankets down again to stop the cold air getting at Alan 's back . |
| 11 | When she heard him coming through she pulled the shower curtain more firmly shut and stretched her hand round the edge . |
| 12 | She swung round and marched along the path to where the boat was moored , and this time did n't make the mistake of turning back when she heard him laugh . |
| 13 | Alarm bells rang with Liz when she heard it tells the story of an ageing , boozy Hollywood star who falls for a young construction worker she meets in a clinic . |
| 14 | She knew panic when she heard it , and sheer panic was in Philip Arbuthnot 's voice . |
| 15 | And when she heard it yesterday , we played it back on there , she was going all shy you know ? |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't going to be easy , ’ Karen had remarked when she heard I was coming . |
| 17 | Gillian , for example , she changed her name when she married me . |
| 18 | ‘ Exactly , and it did n't improve matters from Alfred 's point of view when he discovered that she was already a couple of months pregnant by Matthew when she married him . ’ |
| 19 | He was poor when she married him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had imagined , in her ingenuous way that when she married it would be a combination of that quayside romance with the close sexual intensity she had known with Martin Dickenson in the cabin . |
| 22 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 23 | When she married she swore on oath that she would never work for anyone outside her own family again . |
| 24 | When she married she moved away , but comes back to the village with her husband and son for the annual feast — as does her sister and members of other families who have moved . |
| 25 | When she married she continued to use these techniques although they were no longer relevant in a relationship which required different skills , but for her , this was a foreign country . |
| 26 | The coppers felt huge and unaccustomed in her hand when she received them . |
| 27 | I thought my friend , Irena , was joking when she dragged me , sloshing and sliding , towards the highway . |
| 28 | Harker punched and kicked the girl and when she escaped he smashed a window , went outside and began to smash the windows of her brother 's car . |
| 29 | ‘ Pity to shut you away down here , ’ Mr Priddy said gruffly when she thanked him for his recommendation . |
| 30 | He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him . |