Example sentences of "[adv] when [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when it began to be associated exclusively with women that gossip began its slippery slide into the gutter . |
| 2 | It was only when I swung to the left and broke free for a moment that I was able to observe that he was wearing my dad 's grey towelling dressing-gown . |
| 3 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 4 | It was only when he came to 1936 that Damiani 's face grew suddenly cold and his hands , until now resting quietly on his knees , began to move in agitation . |
| 5 | It was only when he turned to the more immediate problem of finding a way through the waste of mud that Zen noticed the figure lying slumped against the wall . |
| 6 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 7 | It was only when she went to supper that she found the reason why . |
| 8 | Did you get any pools done tonight because it was nine o'clock when I went to bed and . |
| 9 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 10 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 11 | It was nine o'clock when he came to us . |
| 12 | ‘ Not when it came to it , ’ Albert said . |
| 13 | Not when it came to that . |
| 14 | Not when it came to it . |
| 15 | Yes you did , that was yesterday when we went to church and scramblers , but Christopher did n't go to cos he was n't very well was he ? |
| 16 | ‘ I got a shock yesterday when I went to the mortuary , ’ Constance said . |
| 17 | Sometimes when she went to him she was n't so certain . |
| 18 | So she came back to London and married the man I called my father , but she never really cared for him and she still saw this other man sometimes when he came to London on business . |
| 19 | Until recently when I went to a conference on security in libraries and other collections I had not the slightest knowledge of the seamy side of that world or any idea that it had one . |
| 20 | Paul Walsh , senior nursing officer in the psychiatric unit of Wexham Hospital in Slough , was sacked recently when he refused to forcibly inject a patient who was regarded as lucid by the nurses . |
| 21 | The estate of this house dates back to 650 AD when it belonged to the Bishop of Dorchester who was later canonised as Saint Birinius . |