Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the snow began to thaw he could walk gingerly on his injured ankle and when aid arrived at the farm in the form of Tom 's snow-plough , with Tom guiding the plough and Carrie riding the horse , Seb was standing in the farmyard to greet them . |
| 2 | When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she did n't hold out much hope of prising his purse open . |
| 3 | It made Ali susceptible when Rowbotham exploded at the idea of pin-ups . |
| 4 | When Karen arrived at the restaurant that evening , Drew was already there . |
| 5 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 6 | When Luv opened at the Booth Theater in 1964 ( with Wallach , Jackson and Arkin ) , Walter Kerr over-enthusiastically claimed it was better than Waiting for Godot . |
| 7 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 8 | When Schiffer arrived at the Academy Awards to mark her debut as Revlon 's new star , she emerged from a double stretch limo , accompanied by suitable escort , Dan Moriarty , Revlon 's vice-president . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Hunt had carried out further costing work for Barry on the Houses of Parliament , and when Hall arrived at the Office of Works with the dispute over expenditure between Barry and the Office at its height , he shrewdly persuaded Hunt to change sides in an attempt to gain the upper hand . |
| 10 | When Ted arrived at the box , the signalman 's corpse had been laid out on the signal frame- and was covered with a sheet , from where he was removed by ambulance to the local hospital . |
| 11 | On a Sunday in February she was eating her lunch in the cottage where she lived , when d'Urberville knocked at the door . |
| 12 | When guests arrived at the Sculpture Gallery there was a barrel organ playing merrily on one side of the entrance , and a clown on stilts on the other side . |
| 13 | When Helen arrived at the hall in which the choir concert was to be held she could not at first see Giles Carnaby . |
| 14 | When Findlay arrived at the police station the superintendent ordered that he be held incommunicado . |
| 15 | ‘ You look like death , ’ Dave Jenkins said when Laidlaw arrived at the Windorah that evening . |
| 16 | Tessa , eight , was due to hand over the flowers when Di arrived at the Freshfield drug counselling service in Truro , Cornwall . |
| 17 | Tony Yates , manager of Club Lucys , said he first heard he would have to close early when officers called at the club at 11.20pm on Saturday . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said , when Ella appeared at the bedroom door . |
| 19 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 20 | God looked at the earth , and the words are the same as were used when God looked at the earth on the days of creation . |
| 21 | When Hornby died at the height of his company 's success , the annual output of his factories totalled millions of Meccano sets , Hornby trains , and Dinky toys , which had become household names throughout the world . |
| 22 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 23 | She stood still , feeling scared , and then , when Hepzibah appeared at the top of the stairs , ashamed too , as if she had no right to be listening . |
| 24 | The next meeting came when Chapman called at the player 's sports shop in Sunderland to ask him if he would agree to move to Arsenal . |
| 25 | The cabaret songs recorded here were not actually performed when Schoenberg worked at the Uberbrettl Theatre in Berlin in 1901 , and they are as much in the tradition of Hugo Wolf 's comic settings of Mörike and Goethe as of more popular music . |
| 26 | When Rosa looked at the Madonna of the Spasm , she did not see the immaculate mother , the tower of ivory , the fountain sealed , the spring shut up , the enclosed garden of the Madonna 's perpetual virginity . |
| 27 | Now when Abbey looked at the policy , because he 'd got the Covermaster policy , the cheque and everything , there was nothing there to indicate that there was a problem . |
| 28 | DIME Projects began when Geoff lectured at the University of Stirling and when he retired the separation of DIME from the University realised money which Geoff has now asked the SCCC to manage . |
| 29 | He said the men began to ‘ panic and swear ’ when police arrived at the house and Maher appeared at the window , saying : ‘ This is something which has gone terribly wrong . ’ |
| 30 | When reporters arrived at the house , they were told by neighbours that Falati had left in a car accompanied by several men . |