Example sentences of "when she [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nightmare began when she was just five months old . |
| 2 | I got Bonnie — a little terrier-type dog — from an animal sanctuary 18 months ago when she was just nine weeks old . |
| 3 | For the happy-go-lucky youngster from Surrey Hills , life quite literally took a dramatic turn when she was just 11 years old . |
| 4 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 5 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 6 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 7 | Sinead 's torment began when she was just eight years old . |
| 8 | The Nicholsons do know that Natasha 's young mother dumped her illegitimate daughter in an orphanage when she was just a month old . |
| 9 | Margaret had a Presbyterian upbringing , going to church twice on Sundays but lost her faith when she was just 13 . |
| 10 | The actress went through the ordeal when she was just six years old . |
| 11 | She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter . |
| 12 | David and Linda Leeder , of Wayside , Shalford , near Braintree , wanted to have a small teddy bear carved on the headstone marking the grave of their daughter Sophie , who died when she was just seven weeks old . |
| 13 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 14 | Jean met you when she was just 16 and in her last year at school . |
| 15 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 16 | ( Described by her adoring husband early in their marriage ) ‘ Her eyes seemed bigger to him , especially when she was just waking up and fluttered her lids several times in succession ; they were black when she was in shadow and dark blue in full daylight ; and they seemed to contain layer upon layer of colours , which were thicker in hue deep down , and became lighter towards the enamel-like surface . ’ |
| 17 | Her first ‘ pet ’ , a baby deer , was given to her when she was just three . |
| 18 | When she was just about within striking distance , she flung the soaking bundle with all her might in his direction , shouted , ‘ Take that ! ’ and then ran , not waiting to see if she had hit the target or not . |
| 19 | ‘ When she was just seventeen she fell in love with someone quite a bit older than she was . |
| 20 | The durable li'l lady from Nashville who began her recording career when she was just 11 years old proved age had not mellowed her as she belted out the songs of the Fifties and Sixties which made her one of the best selling female vocalists of all time . |
| 21 | It 's strange because when she was just with you she like it . |