Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she says you would n't lend me none when I lived at Arthur 's , I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur 's he swore black and blue it were his . |
| 2 | When I looked at Sogono , in his olive greens and boots , he looked a fish out of water . |
| 3 | But when I started at Benedict 's nineteen years ago , and during my training , though a few forced the pace , no-one thought one odd , or sick , if one did n't leap into bed with one 's boyfriend , or indulge in violent necking sessions on every date . |
| 4 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 5 | When I worked at St. Aldate 's we had a lot of these sort of characters on the edge of things , and erm they used to play very much upon the students ' consciences and I think I 'm just concerned that , you know , there are n't people out there listening who will open their homes up indiscriminately . |
| 6 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 7 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 8 | When I arrived at Lord North Street I sailed straight in . |
| 9 | She was still with me when I arrived at Cannes two days later . |
| 10 | When I arrived at Miss Louise 's door , out of breath from running , I kicked the snow off my clogs and went straight in . |
| 11 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 12 | When I arrived at St Andrews everybody was standing around , and then Arnold comes out . |
| 13 | I was g , I was going to get to read the newspaper report in the Mercury and the Mail , and when I appeared at Leicester Castle before a Judge , but er , I think , and I was going to give you a clue . |
| 14 | When you worked at Needham , you must have seen all the toings , comings and goings on station yard , yard and a lot of cattle coming and going . |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Eyre , ’ continued Mr Rochester , ‘ how old were you when you started at Lowood ? ’ |
| 16 | She first met him when she studied at Trinity College , Dublin , as he neared the end of his degree course . |
| 17 | He must have followed her upstairs , for when she knocked at Meredith 's door the man pushed past her and hammered with his fist on the door , crying , ‘ It 's the pot-man from Dore 's Lodge , Mr Meredith . |
| 18 | The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end . |
| 19 | Never very healthy , she nevertheless managed to live on well into retirement , and was 74 years old when she died at Alf and Bessie 's house in 1951 . |
| 20 | When she arrived at Lynx some hours later she found that the door to the office was propped open , and as soon as she entered she understood the reason . |
| 21 | When she arrived at Holmsly Manor , she found that word of her Portuguese exploits had gone ahead of her . |
| 22 | When she arrived at Heathrow airport , Immigration Officers interrogated her . |
| 23 | When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 . |
| 24 | But when she arrived at Grittleton to find an illegitimate daughter living there just as though she was one of the family , Lady Caroline stormed out . |
| 25 | It was a great relief when she arrived at Lomond View to discover that the only person there was Inge , looking rosy-cheeked and happy after her few days ' holiday . |
| 26 | ‘ I tried the same approach when we played at Runcorn this season … and we lost . |
| 27 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 28 | ‘ Now when we lived at Tunstead [ near Wroxham , Norfolk ] they used to plough with bullocks there . |
| 29 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 30 | When we landed at Owi he had seventy gallons left — enough for a full hour 's flight throttled down . |