Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] 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 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ When I left you at Doune there was no word of this . ’ |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , I was discovered , and when I presented myself at Wandsworth police station I was arrested . |
| 17 | I must just jump up and down on Mrs when I see her at lunch time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 20 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 21 | Did you report him when you spotted him at Rotherhithe ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Was he always alone when you saw him at the house ? ’ |
| 23 | When you draw them at the birdtable do not be afraid to put down any characteristics squiggle . |
| 24 | yes oh yes , could do that , I 've let him some out though when you see him at the back |
| 25 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
| 26 | And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know . |
| 27 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 28 | He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived . |
| 29 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 30 | My mother 's in despair — says she ca n't look her MP in the face when she meets him at Church . |