Example sentences of "when i arrived [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived at the station , I took the next train back to London . |
| 2 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 3 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 4 | When I arrived at the rehearsal the leader of the orchestra said , ‘ Mr von Karajan , I am sorry but we can not begin ; the singers are not here . ’ |
| 5 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 6 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 7 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 8 | When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places ! |
| 9 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 10 | When I arrived at the club , I found I was billed ( in coloured chalk ) as Marti Caine . |
| 11 | But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all . |
| 12 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 14 | When I arrived at the shelter , I found the right man . |
| 15 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 16 | When I arrived at the airport to check in , I was surprised by the amount of security , I decided they must be looking for drug traffickers . |
| 17 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 18 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 19 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 20 | When I arrived on the scene , Joe was trying to come to terms with the situation but it was a difficult time all round . |
| 21 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 22 | When I arrived in the airport I had seen the local paper which reported the sighting of one near Isafjördur . |
| 23 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |