Example sentences of "be at the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 2 | Talk of segregation — you will sit with the men all right , you will sit round a table with them talking examination papers , you wo n't be at the table when the decanter goes round . |
| 3 | I see so there would be if he was this would be at the end when you know this was n't he did n't ever do anything like that before he went off to the w w during the war ? |
| 4 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 5 | Spencer denied having been at the scene when the attack took place but the jury took just less than twenty minutes to convict him . |
| 6 | Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other . |
| 7 | Twice I was at the cinema when it burned down . |
| 8 | He wanted ‘ something really special , with some of the atmosphere that was at the Haçienda when I was going there ’ . |
| 9 | Fergus Pyle of the Irish Times was at the station when the expected delegation from Liverpool arrived on the morning train . |
| 10 | She was at the clinic when it was delivered , working on some case notes . |
| 11 | Two years ago Mrs Ayers went next door to feed Ivy 's cat while she was at the hairdressers when she disturbed burglars at work . |
| 12 | I was at the hospital when he came out of it . |
| 13 | Erm , and sh she she was at the party when he , and she was going away , that was it , and she said , said to Wallis , will you look after David for me . |
| 14 | Mrs Clamp was at the house when I got back , unloading the huge wicker hopper on the front of her ancient bike which lay propped against the kitchen table . |
| 15 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 16 | He was at the Department when it abolished the maternity grant . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't see why not , ’ said Tilney , who was at the age when the more outrageous the idea , the better . |
| 18 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 19 | Harvey was at the flat when I got back . |
| 20 | ’ Gharr was at the spaceport when I landed , and he stopped me tight away . |