Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father .
2 My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford .
3 I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed .
4 It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else .
5 The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty .
6 Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’
7 Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door .
8 When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true .
9 When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely .
10 When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September .
11 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
12 When I dropped you at your villa , I went straight to the hospital and told your father I wanted you to come and work for me . ’
13 I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least .
14 When I left you at Doune there was no word of this . ’
15 I must just jump up and down on Mrs when I see her at lunch time .
16 When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince .
17 It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am .
18 They told you when you asked them at the club .
19 Did you report him when you spotted him at Rotherhithe ? ’
20 ‘ Was he always alone when you saw him at the house ? ’
21 When you draw them at the birdtable do not be afraid to put down any characteristics squiggle .
22 yes oh yes , could do that , I 've let him some out though when you see him at the back
23 His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard .
24 And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know .
25 He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead .
26 He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived .
27 I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket .
28 My mother 's in despair — says she ca n't look her MP in the face when she meets him at Church .
29 But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all .
30 How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed .
  Next page