Example sentences of "when she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 2 | THE Duchess of York staged a royal coup yesterday when she ousted the King of Sweden as number one VIP at a top ski resort . |
| 3 | The bird thing start and said to Debbie this morning when she brought the car in , how you going to pay ? |
| 4 | Belgian hotshot Florence Descampe tasted US victory for the first time when she defied the cream of the LPGA Tour to win the Stratton Mountain Classic in Vermont . |
| 5 | The poem was not published until 1739 , when she met the expense herself . |
| 6 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 7 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |
| 8 | She would do her job — and do it well right until the very day when she left the company . |
| 9 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |
| 10 | Matilda , daughter of King Henry I of England , was eleven when she married the Emperor Henry V ; twenty-six when she married Geoffrey , count of Anjou ; sixty-five when she died ( see pp. 290–1 ) . |
| 11 | It was the fault of the wedding-dress night , when she married the shadows and the world ended . |
| 12 | The actress Jane Asher , author of books on really sticky cakes , asked the audience to boycott Nescafe when she accepted the consumer section award on behalf of the Baby Milk Action Coalition , which has criticised the Swiss giant for selling milk substitutes to third world babes . |
| 13 | I asked her to tell me when she reached the point in the imagined scene where she felt she wished to stop walking along the street . |
| 14 | In April 1988 , when she reached the age of 21 , she issued a writ claiming that these abnormalities were the result of the negligence of medical staff who had in September 1966 carried out a gynaecological operation on her mother , then pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 15 | She was doing seventy when she reached the top . |
| 16 | It was only when she reached the bedroom that Shannon realised she 'd forgotten to take her coffee with her . |
| 17 | It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town and the traffic had dwindled to a trickle . |
| 18 | It was when she heard the phrase ‘ hit-and-run job ’ that she glanced into the road . |
| 19 | She was busy fantasising about the outrageous sights she might see when she heard the receptionist struggling with an overseas call . |
| 20 | She was absorbed in cleaning the arched windows when she heard the sound of a car engine . |
| 21 | She claimed to have been ‘ scarce fourteen years ’ when she wrote The Female Advocate , her most important work , which was published in 1686 . |
| 22 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 23 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 24 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 25 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 26 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 27 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 28 | But Mary would n't know where to phone until tomorrow when she got the letter . |
| 29 | But Lili said there were few enough times when she got the chance really to dress up and she was going to now . |
| 30 | Grace was juggling a full-time job with looking after three children when she got the idea to set up her business . |