Example sentences of "[noun sg] come when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His only defeat came when he fell two out in the Champion while going well . |
| 4 | Jay says his greatest pleasure came when he played against two Grandmasters from Russia and one each from England and Romania , drawing twice and losing twice . |
| 5 | The fascination of the piece comes when one starts to compare positive and negative , or outside to inside . |
| 6 | The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned . |
| 7 | Walters ' most memorable moment in a Liverpool shirt came when he scored the winner in the 3-0 UEFA Cup win against Auxerre last season , reversing a similar deficit as they face tonight . |
| 8 | Walters ' most memorable moment in a Liverpool shirt came when he scored the winner in the 3-0 UEFA Cup win against Auxerre last season , reversing a similar deficit as they face tonight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | When I set myself to search this site , my first little breakthrough came when I uncovered a bronze coin weight ; this was in very poor condition but I was able to make out that it was 17th century in date . |
| 14 | Dave 's closest brush with a total gratification zone came when he met Bono on U2 's recent American tour . |
| 15 | My worst moment came when I had to change film . |
| 16 | Fairbrother 's anxious moment came when he had made 43 during yesterday 's Benson & Hedges Cup semifinal victory against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 17 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 18 | And he said yes you can , but it would do you no good at all , cos if the point came when you split up the judge would n't look at your contract , he would only consider the rights of the child . |
| 19 | The breaking point came when he reached the side of the gazebo . |
| 20 | The final pathetic cry comes when he complains about her selling their story to a newspaper . |
| 21 | Now , the complication comes when we notice that there are parts of the ego that are not conscious . |
| 22 | May I take the liberty of reminding the right hon. Gentleman of his relative 's famous quote in relation to his own personal position : that each man 's life is like a diary in which we set out to write one account and finish up writing something different and that our most humble moment comes when we compare what we have written with that which we intended to write . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Anyway , the day came when he asked to see Jimmy and me . |
| 25 | Then a day came when he took me outside . |
| 26 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 27 | Inevitably she got down , and the day came when she had to go , for her own sake really . |
| 28 | His first professional contact with the Royal Navy came when he joined Navy News in 1969 . |
| 29 | The fun comes when you want to produce real publications with mixed text and graphics , multiple fonts and even the possibility of scanned photographs or colour separations . |
| 30 | The turning-point in his career came when he met Walter Sickert [ q.v. ] |