Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
| 2 | It was only when I bought a collection of 12 Nalevich drawings and documents that I began to think about a constructivist show . |
| 3 | It 's like when I had a letter |
| 4 | Union officials caused an outcry yesterday when they produced a document claimed to be a national British Rail hit list of lines which would close under privatisation . |
| 5 | Princes William and Harry continued their Christmas break at Sandringham without their mother yesterday when they attended a carol service with the rest of the Royal Family at a nearby church . |
| 6 | GUNMEN killed an Irish nurse yesterday when they attacked a convoy taking her to a new assignment in Baidoa , a Somali towns at the centre of the famine region . |
| 7 | A HUGE arsenal of weapons was seized by police yesterday when they smashed a nationwide ‘ crooks ’ co-op ’ . |
| 8 | ALISON Streeter , 28 , of Dover , set a new women 's world record yesterday when she braved a thunderstorm to complete her 20th Channel swim . |
| 9 | PRINCESS Diana came as close as she could to commenting on her marriage break-up yesterday when she made a public vow to continue working for her charities . |
| 10 | THE Princess of Wales was compared to a Hindu goddess by Nepalis yesterday when she visited a hospital and made a point of touching leprosy victims . |
| 11 | SCOTS comedian Robbie Coltrane , 42 , was taken by surprise yesterday when he became a father for the first time . |
| 12 | NEW Employment Secretary David Hunt turned the spotlight on training yesterday when he visited a number of sites in Cheshire and Merseyside . |
| 13 | Chris Law 's last-minute attempt to win a place in the British Olympic team briefly flickered to life yesterday when he won a Soling race in the French Olympic Classes Regatta at Hyeres , finishing in front of Lawrie Smith , writes David Pelly . |
| 14 | MIDLAND Bank chief executive Brian Pearse noted a glimmer of recovery yesterday when he unveiled a rise in pre-tax profits to £178 million . |
| 15 | PRINCE Charles put the royal blues behind him yesterday when he did a spell of hard time . |
| 16 | There were 30,000 tuberculosis beds in this country before the war , but we do not need TB beds now ; we need day surgery and intensive care facilities , such as those that I opened yesterday when I visited a hospital in the constituency of the hon. Member for Peckham ( Ms. Harman ) . |
| 17 | THE Darlington Building Society maintained the North-East trend among building societies yesterday when it announced a rise in profits by more than 30pc . |
| 18 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 19 | BRITAIN 'S dressage riders made history today when they took a European Championship team silver medal in Lipica , Slovenia . |
| 20 | They always had somebody staying there ; and we used to get into bed about ten o'clock — later than that sometimes when they had a dinner party ! |
| 21 | Sometimes when she caught a glimpse of that woman with the drooping lids , the pronounced cheekbones , the crêpey neck in a strange mirror , she did n't recognize her as herself at all . |
| 22 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 23 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 24 | A dream come true for Katharine Mahoney recently when she won a lesson with Britain 's most successful dressage rider , Jennie Loriston-Clarke , in a Today 's Horse competition . |
| 25 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 26 | And he was just half-way through his fourth comeback game against Airdrie recently when he suffered a kick on the knee . |