Example sentences of "when [noun] [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ivan III came to the throne the Kremlin hill was still covered with wooden buildings . |
| 2 | When Edward I succeeded to the throne of England in 1272 , the king of Scotland was Alexander III . |
| 3 | In fact when Boy first came to us he was at the point of exhaustion . |
| 4 | But she had not known when Foucard last spoke to her and he could not know she had found out . |
| 5 | A number of them old , dedicated members of the Party who had joined when Mussolini first came to power — fraternized much too much with the Germans . |
| 6 | The most likely explanation is that calcium stored within the space between the nuclear membranes was released to the cytosol when InsP 3 bound to receptors on the outer nuclear membrane . |
| 7 | Calcium contained within intracellular stores is released to the cytosol when InsP 3 binds to its receptor ( Fig. 2c ) . |
| 8 | When Mrs Handy went to the sink she must have touched the machine and up to two hundred and forty volts passed through her body . |
| 9 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 10 | When Beth first came to the house , the rear garden was derelict . |
| 11 | When Charles II returned to England as king in 1660 , the old compulsory state church was quickly restored and the freedoms of the 1650s soon vanished . |
| 12 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | Reacher said : ‘ When Cloughie first came to Forest , several clubs tried to touch him up , but he honoured his contract . |
| 14 | When documents first began to be widely used in history teaching , local documents were often cited as a local illustration of the national theme . |
| 15 | William III 's one ambition was to topple Louis XIV of France and when James II went to Ireland to establish a following there , William decided to take up arms against him . |
| 16 | While serving as ambassador at the court of St James Sancy 's brother sold the stone to James I. When James II fled to France he took refuge at St Germain and sold the stone to Louis XIV . |
| 17 | When Henry VIII acceded to the throne , James let himself be drawn into a dubious alliance with the French king Louis XII , and after Henry had invaded France wrote him a brash letter demanding a cessation of hostilities . |