Example sentences of "when she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you become over-protective of her when she growls at strange dogs , in her mind you will be ‘ rewarding ’ her and making your problem worse . |
| 2 | ‘ And when she fell for her thirteenth I said , ‘ Ca n't you get him to leave you alone ’ ( not that that 's what she wanted , knowing her ) , and she said , ‘ Well , what can I do ? |
| 3 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 4 | I think my brother-in-law was summoned to the help of Mrs McLaren , when she fell into the brook one dark morning , because he was a parish councillor . |
| 5 | Candy Morris has amazed doctors at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.Just two weeks ago her foot was almost severed when she fell into this shredding machine at her own paper baling business . |
| 6 | Beryl East , an elderly woman from Sussex , died at a north Devon beauty spot when she fell into the flooded East Lyn River while walking with her husband . |
| 7 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 8 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 9 | Judy Rumbold , the fashion editor of The Guardian , could n't have been more wrong when she wrote about trainers ( August 21 , 1989 ) : ‘ In Tom Wolfe 's Bonfire Of The Vanities , sneakers are documented as an intrusive part of young American street style ; not just symbols of black affiliation and for high performance on the dancefloor but as crucial elements in maintaining a lugubrious , rhythmic gait that Wolfe coined the Pimp Roll . |
| 10 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 11 | The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . |
| 12 | Even his wife was surprised when she heard of her new guest in a telephone call from the airport . |
| 13 | And then Mrs Reed , whose health had been badly affected by worrying about her son , had suddenly fallen ill when she heard of his death . |
| 14 | She had managed , nevertheless , to seize a few moments with the erstwhile companion when the gentlemen returned , for Araminta had at once gone over to greet Mr Saul Quatt , who had , at her request , presided over the service in the local church — much to the chagrin of its incumbent , whose ruffled feathers Mrs Alderley had been obliged to smooth when she heard of the plan from him . |
| 15 | And Mrs Tuckett had shrieked with laughter because she probably was the sort of woman who laughed loudly in pubs , but would never intentionally hurt anyone , and who would be cut to the marrow when she heard of her only son 's death . |
| 16 | Val Allsop like many of David Pratley 's friends was distraught when she heard of his death . |
| 17 | FORMER nanny Karen Pattinson of Conwy did not hesitate when she heard of the plight of flood victims . |
| 18 | But Margaret laughed at him , and when she heard about a new God who sacrificed only himself , and gave bread and sweet wine to the people , she became a Christian . |
| 19 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 20 | Mother Francis had acted swiftly when she heard about Eve . |
| 21 | Jackie , 23 , of Bristol , said later she suspected 30-year-old Graham planned to pop the question when she heard about the Radio 5 link-up from Barcelona . |
| 22 | ‘ Why are you always in trouble , Anne ? ’ asked Marilla , when she heard about Anne 's adventure . |
| 23 | When she parked at the office she could n't find reverse . |
| 24 | But no , his daughter had always been a model of sobriety , good works and even chastity ( a virgin when she married at nineteen . |
| 25 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 26 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 27 | My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 29 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 30 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |