Example sentences of "[adv] when it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss . |
| 2 | Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles . |
| 3 | As Professor Elton has argued , it was not regarded as a constitutional force which deserved notice only when it was opposing or restricting the Crown . |
| 4 | The benefit conferred upon the taxpayers was one which logically followed only when it was determined that there were surplus places and the authorities of the college in their discretion agreed to admit the taxpayers ' children to these places . |
| 5 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 6 | Outdoor pursuits , especially walks , were promoted at all times , reading by oneself only when it was raining , and television not at all ( although in old age she herself became a tireless watcher of ‘ the News ’ ) . |
| 7 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 8 | It was not a professional affair , only a home-movie job , but it worked well enough when it was working . |
| 9 | Gen. Francisco Sánchez González , the Chief of Police , was named as Bernal 's replacement but was forced to step down when it was revealed shortly afterwards that the police payroll had been inflated by the inclusion of " phantom " policemen . |
| 10 | The " correct " way of constructing a building could never be such that it would immediately fall down when it was completed . |
| 11 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 12 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 13 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 14 | Summing up a custom-made guitar , especially when it was made for no-one in particular , is a difficult task at the best of times . |
| 15 | David MacLehose , director of the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland , said a fall in unemployment was always welcome , especially when it was matched with the highest increase in notified vacancies at job centres for two years . |
| 16 | But when the word reached him , and especially when it was seen that Lord Grey himself was with the party , thereafter I can not be sure . |
| 17 | Legislation requiring the registration of houses taking children for adoption followed , but respectable working class women resented this inspection , especially when it was carried out by the Poor Law Relieving Officer . |
| 18 | All their special , you know , relics and that and they put them all in the cellars so when it was bombed , all the precio all the treasures and that were kept . |
| 19 | We 'd received a tip-off about a shipment of cocaine due in at Nice aboard a South American freighter , so when it was unloaded we were able to apprehend the gang without much of a struggle . |
| 20 | So when it was made |
| 21 | The Barwickers wish to keep their tradition , so when it was lowered on Easter Monday 1987 I was there to watch . |
| 22 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 23 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 24 | She was brought in when it was discovered that the largest of the two rings , in Penzance , had contact with other rings throughout the country and many of the perpetrators had been in prison . |
| 25 | Well I should say yes they would , I should say there was trouble for them obviously when it was reported . |
| 26 | Thus when it was discovered that Jock Houston had a criminal record he was immediately moved from London to Manchester , and replaced in Shoreditch by Charles Wegg Prosser , a law student with an impeccable background . |
| 27 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 28 | ‘ And , as I said , Rob and I took the chest over when it was finished . |
| 29 | The partnership had opened a new phosphorus plant in Oldbury in Worcestershire in 1851 , which Albright took over when it was dissolved at the end of 1854 . |
| 30 | ‘ Against the deep blue of the sky just when it was getting dark , ’ said Jane Postlethwaite enthusiastically . |