Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 2 | It was only when I did something particularly outrageous that the priggish side of him came out . ’ |
| 3 | It was only when he felt her going limp against him that he stopped and lifted his head . |
| 4 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 5 | It was only when he drew her back by her arms that she opened her eyes wide and stared at him . |
| 6 | It was only when she had it on that she realised the danger of this . |
| 7 | It was only when she ceased her household duties , refused to cook and clean , refused herself to eat , and went and sat day after day in the park , never changing her clothes , and wandering about with plastic bags full of old newspapers , that anyone took notice . |
| 8 | It was only when she found herself being abruptly swept off his lap , and on to the leather seat beside him , that she managed to start pulling herself together . |
| 9 | It was only when she exhibited her portraits in a boardroom that the medical staff actually saw what she was doing and she finally felt accepted . |
| 10 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 11 | It was barely eight o'clock when she decided she might as well go to bed , but , when she headed towards the kitchen to make a suppertime hot drink , he followed her . |
| 12 | it 's like when she asked her whether she would change her hours from half past nine to six to cover the office and said no I 'm quite happy doing what I 'm doing and could n't have coped with the confrontation you see . |
| 13 | RUSSIAN parliamentarians , already routed over their opposition to economic reform , were on the rack again yesterday when they tied themselves in knots over what to call the country . |
| 14 | But their dreams were shattered yesterday when they learned their father was dead . |
| 15 | PENSIONER Charlie Hill was celebrating a £180 fruit-machine win yesterday when he heard he had scooped another £2 million-plus on the pools . |
| 16 | No prizes for guessing who Ian Chapman , the publisher sacked by Rupert Murdoch when he took over William Collins , was referring to yesterday when he launched his new company . |
| 17 | Gillis-Tweed finally gave himself up at 1.20pm yesterday when he dropped his weapon and left the house . |
| 18 | And oddly enough one of my friends asked me only yesterday when he said what 's on your programme for next week , he said how on earth do you keep up to date ? |
| 19 | PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma of Namibia sparked a furious row yesterday when he said his country 's abundant wildlife would have to be killed to provide meat for his drought-stricken nation . |
| 20 | BARRY FRY capped one of the most astonishing comebacks in football yesterday when he won his old job back as manager of Third Division Barnet . |
| 21 | STAFFORD MURRAY , 19 days short of his 14th birthday , became the youngest winner of a senior county closed championship at the Leominster Leisure Centre , Herefordshire , yesterday when he defeated his coach , Peter Ratcliffe , 9-5 , 9-7 , 9-2 in the final . |
| 22 | It 's yesterday when you bought you it . |
| 23 | I happened to be walking past the kitchen yesterday when I heard you calling to someone named William . ’ |
| 24 | so yesterday when I went I got myself another drape |
| 25 | Yesterday when I remembered it I just cracked up . |
| 26 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |
| 27 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 28 | And today — today when I thought you 'd taken to leaving with resignation and humour , you were planning this little surprise . |
| 29 | It was a feast fit for a king , and afterwards when we left we felt well fortified to tackle the hill back up to camp . |
| 30 | I know he did n't even get it afterwards when we told him . |