Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I knocked at the door , Mr Rochester 's old servant , John , opened it and recognized me . |
| 2 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 3 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
| 4 | Yet when I looked at the bottle , the label told me that the wine had a decidedly non-classic provenance . |
| 5 | Erm you probably all know Murphy 's law that what can go wrong will go wrong , when I looked at the Oil Service Industry in last year , I rather think that Murphy was a bit of an optimist myself . |
| 6 | ‘ When I looked at the archive material , I was surprised at what the censor passed rather than what was hushed up . |
| 7 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 8 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 9 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 10 | The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 11 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 12 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 13 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 14 | When I arrived at the airport to check in , I was surprised by the amount of security , I decided they must be looking for drug traffickers . |
| 15 | When I arrived at the station , I took the next train back to London . |
| 16 | When I arrived at the rehearsal the leader of the orchestra said , ‘ Mr von Karajan , I am sorry but we can not begin ; the singers are not here . ’ |
| 17 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 18 | When I arrived at the shelter , I found the right man . |
| 19 | When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places ! |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 21 | When I arrived at the club , I found I was billed ( in coloured chalk ) as Marti Caine . |
| 22 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 23 | When I jumped at the chance , he assigned me to producing the Mart Kenney Orchestra show from the Hotel Vancouver roof garden . |
| 24 | When you arrived at the house she was in residence . |
| 25 | so when you started at the dock , you started as what ? |
| 26 | It was just the way his hand flew to his pocket when you hammered at the door . ’ |
| 27 | When she parked at the office she could n't find reverse . |
| 28 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 29 | Yet when she arrived , when she knocked at the door and waited outside , bits of the outfit threatened to dissociate , to turn ugly and risible . |
| 30 | So I tiptoed downstairs when she knocked at the door |