Example sentences of "was [adv] when [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayling and Walsh had already probed the possibility of getting their hands on some of this money , but it was only when Horsley arrived in March 1986 that things began to really move . |
| 2 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 3 | Passers-by were clearly baffled by what they saw and it was only when curiosity proved too much that anyone came near enough to be buttonholed . |
| 4 | ‘ I was here when Hopkins discovered it . |
| 5 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 6 | If Max was there when Dedo arrived the chances were not altogether against a peaceful conversazione and the witty exit of Modigliani to his own atelier close by … |