Example sentences of "was [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest sell of all was perhaps when the dealer said : " You will do well on this . |
| 2 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 3 | But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets . |
| 4 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 5 | It was as if it was only when the surf was at its most savage that the ghost of Eddie Aikau could be expected to revisit the Bay . |
| 6 | But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope . |
| 7 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 8 | A small figure was seated beside the trainer and it was only when the two men got out of the car and walked briskly towards them that Kelly saw that it was Cy McCray . |
| 9 | Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , described the case 's circumstances as ‘ wholly exceptional ’ and said it was only when Mr Butler was driven into a corner that he drew the sword in self defence . |
| 10 | But it was only when tourists and journalists began to return from Bucharest in the mid-later 1980s with photographs of the demolitions and stories about their effects on the local people that any organized criticism of the regime got under way in Western Europe . |
| 11 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 12 | But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished . |
| 13 | ‘ When Warren did eventually turn up he was marvellously witty and entertaining — but unfortunately that was only when the cameras WERE N'T rolling . |
| 14 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 17 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 18 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 19 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 20 | The white Gulfstream One executed a perfect landing but it was only when it taxied towards them that Whitlock saw the blue , red and white Zimbalan flag painted on the side of the fuselage with the words ‘ Air Zimbala ’ above it in black lettering . |
| 21 | But it was only when these first rehearsals began that two more problems reared their heads . |
| 22 | But it was only when he laughed that Boldwood recognized the man who had destroyed his hope and happiness once and was about to do it again . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 27 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 28 | He should have realised it before , but it was only when he had seen Juliet that the obvious had appeared in all its blatancy . |
| 29 | She raged silently all the way back to the cottage , but it was only when the front door closed behind them that she could trust herself enough to speak . |
| 30 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |