Example sentences of "was only [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was only when they came to see me and talked about it that he found out that when she went to bed it was to get ready for sex , while he stayed downstairs because he thought she was n't interested . ’ |
| 2 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 4 | It was only when I stopped hurting her that she got worried . |
| 5 | It was only when I started to receive my magazine that I realised just how courageous the lifeboat crews are . |
| 6 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 7 | It was only when she began to spend time at CBS 's corporate headquarters that Wilson realised just how congenial the atmosphere at Virgin had been by comparison — particularly for a highly motivated woman . |
| 8 | It was only when she had closed the door behind her and was hurrying along the corridor that led back into the hall that she noticed the painting . |
| 9 | It was only when she started talking to Flaubert that she was seen to relax . |
| 10 | This his initial astonishment , lines lacking the and receptor all appeared quite normal , and it was only when he had made lines lacking two isoforms at once that clear effects were seen ( thank God , he added ) . |
| 11 | It was only when he had followed Cornelius most of the way across the room that the significance of what had just happened dawned on him . |
| 12 | Worried by their absence , it was only when he had contacted the superintendent of the building — who seemed to know everything that happened in the neighbourhood — that he 'd learned exactly what had happened to Laura and the twins . |
| 13 | It was only when he began having fantasies about space men that he was really in there with the hit . |