Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 2 | Twice I was at the cinema when it burned down . |
| 3 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 4 | Oh , no ; whatever it was wanted to introduce itself at some stage , because one night she was lying staring at the dark when it seemed as though her head simply filled out into a large horizon . |
| 5 | He was at the Department when it abolished the maternity grant . |
| 6 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 7 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |