Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 2 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 3 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 4 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 5 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 6 | Even the New Forest Hunt master admitted it was wrong when he spoke at a rival press conference . |