Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 2 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 3 | It made Ali susceptible when Rowbotham exploded at the idea of pin-ups . |
| 4 | When Karen arrived at the restaurant that evening , Drew was already there . |
| 5 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 6 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 7 | When Schiffer arrived at the Academy Awards to mark her debut as Revlon 's new star , she emerged from a double stretch limo , accompanied by suitable escort , Dan Moriarty , Revlon 's vice-president . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Hunt had carried out further costing work for Barry on the Houses of Parliament , and when Hall arrived at the Office of Works with the dispute over expenditure between Barry and the Office at its height , he shrewdly persuaded Hunt to change sides in an attempt to gain the upper hand . |
| 9 | When Ted arrived at the box , the signalman 's corpse had been laid out on the signal frame- and was covered with a sheet , from where he was removed by ambulance to the local hospital . |
| 10 | On a Sunday in February she was eating her lunch in the cottage where she lived , when d'Urberville knocked at the door . |
| 11 | When Helen arrived at the hall in which the choir concert was to be held she could not at first see Giles Carnaby . |
| 12 | Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night . |
| 13 | When Findlay arrived at the police station the superintendent ordered that he be held incommunicado . |
| 14 | ‘ You look like death , ’ Dave Jenkins said when Laidlaw arrived at the Windorah that evening . |
| 15 | Tessa , eight , was due to hand over the flowers when Di arrived at the Freshfield drug counselling service in Truro , Cornwall . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said , when Ella appeared at the bedroom door . |
| 17 | God looked at the earth , and the words are the same as were used when God looked at the earth on the days of creation . |
| 18 | When Hornby died at the height of his company 's success , the annual output of his factories totalled millions of Meccano sets , Hornby trains , and Dinky toys , which had become household names throughout the world . |
| 19 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 20 | She stood still , feeling scared , and then , when Hepzibah appeared at the top of the stairs , ashamed too , as if she had no right to be listening . |
| 21 | The next meeting came when Chapman called at the player 's sports shop in Sunderland to ask him if he would agree to move to Arsenal . |
| 22 | The cabaret songs recorded here were not actually performed when Schoenberg worked at the Uberbrettl Theatre in Berlin in 1901 , and they are as much in the tradition of Hugo Wolf 's comic settings of Mörike and Goethe as of more popular music . |
| 23 | When Rosa looked at the Madonna of the Spasm , she did not see the immaculate mother , the tower of ivory , the fountain sealed , the spring shut up , the enclosed garden of the Madonna 's perpetual virginity . |
| 24 | DIME Projects began when Geoff lectured at the University of Stirling and when he retired the separation of DIME from the University realised money which Geoff has now asked the SCCC to manage . |
| 25 | The official report of the Maadi Hospital states that when Sadat arrived at the hospital and was examined he was in a state of complete coma . |
| 26 | Most of them were well gone in their cups and offered no objection when Cranston knocked at the door and demanded entrance . |
| 27 | During Andrew and Fergie 's wedding preparations in June , Charles causes raised eyebrows himself by appearing completely uncaring when Diana faints at the opening of the Expo exhibition in Vancouver . |
| 28 | It was after the ‘ half ’ when Charles arrived at the Variety Theatre . |
| 29 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 30 | When Thornton started at the Daily Mirror he found the usual chronic Fleet Street over-staffing , and began to swing the axe to enable the paper to stand on its own two feet and ward off the inevitable predators , such as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell . |