Example sentences of "came when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 2 | It came when her parents pried into her secrets and were horrified by what they found . |
| 3 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 4 | The turning point for them came when their car broke down after a family christening . |
| 5 | Later , a great step came when we started making films . |
| 6 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 7 | Our first minor disagreement of this kind came when we met a large puddle on a woodland track and Skipper decided he could n't possibly get his feet wet . |
| 8 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 9 | They came when we could n't possibly have expected them . ’ |
| 10 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 11 | The crunch came when they moved in the police . |
| 12 | WALL 'S : The company 's great breakthrough came when they decided to buy trikes to sell their ice-cream around the streets in the 1920s . |
| 13 | He knew that planes were designed to withstand violent airwaves , that the real danger came when they were close to the ground . |
| 14 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 15 | His deep , deep penetration of her came when they could hold back no longer , when the sensuality had swollen so painfully inside them that it cried out for release . |
| 16 | Shelley was laughing now , feeling that ease that happened more frequently these days , the ease that came when they were together and became , quite suddenly and pleasantly , totally relaxed with each other . |
| 17 | The crowd generously greeted David Baird 's consolation try , which came when they were already 70 points down . |
| 18 | In fact Libya 's only legal infraction came when it offered to release the two to the Arab League . |
| 19 | She came when it was dark . |
| 20 | The crunch came when it was realised that these competent women had a propensity to marry ( Martindale , 1939 ) . |
| 21 | Relief came when it flew away and left our little group in the quiet on the top of the mountain range . |
| 22 | She came when it suited her , when she could spare the time from her other work , but she always popped in on Monday afternoons to make a start on the ironing . |
| 23 | I wish you could have visited us then , but of course all our visitors came when it was wet . |
| 24 | The worst of many ‘ uncontrollable depressions ’ during his first 18 months in the White House came when his son Willie died . |
| 25 | There were certainly explosions in laboratories in Davy 's time , and Faraday 's chance came when his master was disabled after working with nitrogen trihalides ; here they did wear goggles , but in general precautions were few . |
| 26 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 27 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |
| 28 | Knighton 's fiercest response came when he was asked about reported demands . |
| 29 | The next upset came when he was chosen for the 1948–9 tour of India but asked , as a professional , to be paid £250 ; the WICBC refused , Worrell declined to back down , and he did not go . |
| 30 | His best season so far came when he rode 28 winners , and with 22 to his credit already this term , he is on course to better that total . |