Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 2 | It is only when we reach old age , whenever that is , that we can experience and reflect upon an almost entire life cycle . |
| 3 | It is only when we try to extract some information by means of a measurement that the traumatic discontinuity of the collapse of the wavepacket takes place . |
| 4 | It is only when we put to it the rude experimental question " where are you ? " that it is forced to make the sharp choice between those two possibilities . |
| 5 | It 's only when we let go of life and allow our innate wisdom to flourish that we live ! ’ |
| 6 | It is only when we remember that it has many internal parts , all obeying laws of physics at their own level , that we understand the behaviour of the whole body . |
| 7 | It was only when we left the tavern that we heard about the King . ’ |
| 8 | Paradoxically , it is only when we accept ourselves as we are that we begin to change . |
| 9 | As long as we do so , we 're ‘ credit users ’ : it is only when we fail that we become ‘ debtors ’ . |
| 10 | As long as we do so , we 're ‘ credit users ’ : it is only when we fail that we become ‘ debtors ’ . |
| 11 | It is only when we start to get into the bigger patterns that the order in which the colours are to be used for knitting becomes crucial . |
| 12 | It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure . |
| 13 | It was only when they reached the bar and addressed the barmaid that Loretta began to take notice . |
| 14 | It was only when they reached the turning to Sansepolcro that he felt something hard underneath his foot . |
| 15 | It was only when they tensed , curling and tightening their grip on the floor , did he realise they were alive . |
| 16 | It was only when they saw the picture on the cover of a magazine — on their 38th wedding anniversary — that they realised their kiss had been captured forever . |
| 17 | It is only when they come together to form a pattern which gets progressively worse that the probability of Chemical Dependency increases . |
| 18 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 19 | ‘ It was only when they came to see me and talked about it that he found out that when she went to bed it was to get ready for sex , while he stayed downstairs because he thought she was n't interested . ’ |
| 20 | Soon they were both laughing openly , and it was only when they took refuge in a close study of the menu that they were able to regain the control that the supercilious wine waiter clearly thought appropriate to his establishment . |
| 21 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 22 | yeah she 'll be in trouble wo n't she , she often gets her own drinks anyway , she sort of like , she 's at that age she can , it 's only when they get out there together |
| 23 | And it 's only when they see publicity of the drug that they actually realize |
| 24 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 25 | It is only when they have been thus adopted that conscious strategy turns into habitual rule , coping into culture . |
| 26 | It was only when they found the man who had taken the car back that the shop manager told him . |
| 27 | It is only when one supposes that , as well as such ideas , there is either ‘ extension in abstract ’ or extended , external , material things which might have parts we can not perceive , that one might come to believe in the infinite divisibility of finite extension . |
| 28 | It is only when one moves into the realms of complicated , multi-column pages which have several different sizes and styles of print with perhaps some photographs as well that the user really needs to worry about page makeup software . |
| 29 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 30 | It was only when it began to be associated exclusively with women that gossip began its slippery slide into the gutter . |