Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pron] at the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 5 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 6 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 12 | ‘ Was he always alone when you saw him at the house ? ’ |
| 13 | But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all . |
| 14 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |
| 15 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 16 | The Palace was Whibley 's only League club and , when he left us at the end of 1922–23 , he returned to his home town to play for Sittingbourne . |
| 17 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |