Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 2 | When I knocked at another door , it was opened by a tall , thin man , with long , dirty hair hanging down to his shoulders . |
| 3 | When I returned at twenty past three |
| 4 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 5 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 6 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of Beauty as beautiful and Cruelty as cruel . |
| 7 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of beauty as beautiful and cruelty as cruel . |
| 8 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 9 | Vacancies who arise from five seventeen , had a figure of five seventeen , when I looked at this now , how could y , where did they get the figures from this . |
| 10 | When I started at first erm |
| 11 | I found the church locked when I arrived at four thirty . ’ |
| 12 | Did n't trip over your car in the car park when I arrived at seven this morning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 14 | And when I arrived at this party , she is totally unsubtle and sometimes very rude , you know , and er |
| 15 | The pinky hue of the eastern sky had begun to spill over the giant three centuries old building at the east end of the Square when I called at 7 a.m. sharp to meet him . |
| 16 | And when you arrived at that conclusion , what did you do ? |
| 17 | But no , his daughter had always been a model of sobriety , good works and even chastity ( a virgin when she married at nineteen . |
| 18 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 19 | When she looked at poor little Hoomey , she was filled with pity for him being so hopeless . |
| 20 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 21 | He felt uneasy when she smiled at this : he had expected her to defend him from his accusation of age . |
| 22 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
| 23 | But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know . |
| 24 | When we left at 11.20 am the forecourt would be crowded with another congregation waiting to enter for the 11.30 am Celebration of the Sung Eucharist . |
| 25 | So a modern sexual dimorphism is explicable in terms of erm inter-male er conflict and it may be in the case of human beings er most of them are , for example the larger body weight of males that we saw when we looked at sexual dimorphism in human beings is probably explicable erm in terms of inter-male conflict like it is in chimpanzees . |
| 26 | And when we laughed at this they started back in absurd confusion . |
| 27 | Cause he was there when we won at nine o'clock just after five . |
| 28 | Well , when they came at first they says , see the way they 've got there |
| 29 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 30 | Eyes which widened when they looked at Sabine , then became opaque — blank . |