Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 2 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 3 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 4 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 5 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 6 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 7 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 8 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 9 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 10 | When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September . |
| 11 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 12 | ‘ When I dropped you at your villa , I went straight to the hospital and told your father I wanted you to come and work for me . ’ |
| 13 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 14 | ‘ When I left you at Doune there was no word of this . ’ |
| 15 | I must just jump up and down on Mrs when I see her at lunch time . |
| 16 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |