Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 2 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 3 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 4 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 5 | When I worked at the General , doctor 's who shall be name less used |
| 6 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 7 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 8 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 9 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 10 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 11 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 12 | All the same , she could feel butterflies in her stomach when she arrived at the imposing entrance to Puddephat 's college at twelve . |
| 13 | Neither ailment had been positively identified when she arrived at the Royal and it was decided to transfer her for further investigation . |
| 14 | When she arrived at the Red House , a large Citroën was parked at the top of the short drive . |
| 15 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 16 | She always felt unnerved when she researched at the august Victoria and Albert Museum and became only too conscious of her lack of formal training . |
| 17 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 18 | That 's for one hundred thousand , that 's for ten thousand , that 's for ten thousand , that 's right , and when we looked at the fifteen years , that 's the for fifteen years , that 's again for twenty five . |
| 19 | When we performed at The Intimate in Palmers Green , he was paid £7.10 and at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill Gate , I think he was paid about £4 . |
| 20 | ‘ The reaction when we filmed at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham was fantastic he said . |
| 21 | Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting . |
| 22 | There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes . |
| 23 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 24 | Later , dozens of people were waiting to greet the couple when they arrived at the new £4m British Embassy building . |
| 25 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 26 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 27 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 28 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 29 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's surprising that she could n't recall delivering twins for Lilian , when it happened at the same time as Donna , almost ? |