Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [pron] at [art] " 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 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 .
5 Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’
6 Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door .
7 When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true .
8 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 .
9 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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