Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she appeared at a ball people stood on chairs to see her . |
| 2 | The only treat we allowed ourselves was a bar of chocolate each when we called at a petrol station , ’ says Solowka . |
| 3 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | June 1 : Piper L–4 Grasshopper destroyed when it crashed at a rodeo in Antioch , California . |
| 5 | Docherty , who reckons that is a real blunder , made his feelings known when he spoke at a soccer club dinner in Norfolk . |
| 6 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |