Example sentences of "when a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 2 | The Essex team had reason to be grateful to the weather when a down-pour at the Southend Spring Festival ( 16 May ) brought crowds into the covered area just in time to watch them perform . |
| 3 | Corbett was nodding in agreement when a knock at the door interrupted them and a short , dumpy figure entered . |
| 4 | I was working in my room , when a knock at the door heralded the entry of four second-year students . |
| 5 | As his first wife , June Barry , recalls , Whitaker was at work on another project when a knock at the office door heralded the entrance of Donald Wilson . |
| 6 | Link working — interpreting for both patients and medical staff — was a new idea , and when a job at the North Middlesex Hospital was advertised locally , I applied and , unknown to my husband , got an interview . |
| 7 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |