Example sentences of "that when [pers pn] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say that when we came across any martyrs , we tended to regard them with something approaching envy . |
| 2 | I told him then that when we came to England we 'd be staying at this hotel . |
| 3 | We said in section 5.1 that when we came to analyse the operation of the discount market from a conventional point of view , we should find that there were a number of curious features . |
| 4 | In speaking to these early Christians Paul is implying that when they came to follow Jesus , they did not suddenly shed their deepest emotions . |
| 5 | But of course she told me that when they came there they were there to look after the place so that it was n't taken over , you know by anybody else , but she had a washing machine , the washing machine come in just after . |
| 6 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 7 | He said only to the degree that when you came , you did not come , i.e. there was orgasm without emission ; a change which on several grounds has much to recommend it . |
| 8 | I was going to tell you that when you came in . |
| 9 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 10 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 11 | And so whenever she imagined this scene , she knew that when it came to the visitor 's question she would capitulate and declare against her wishes , against her desire : ‘ Yes . |
| 12 | It would be simple enough to avoid their hospitality given sufficient ruthlessness and he had never lacked that when it came to safeguarding his privacy . |
| 13 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 14 | The market-boast died first , as one by one , IBM 's hottest new products fell by the wayside , starting as early as Series/1 and the 8100 , continuing through System 38 , which was excellent , but scared IBM 's mainframe mafia too much , to the RT , such a disaster that when it came to the RS/6000 , IBM had to play new kid on the block and study and try to emulate the leaders in the Unix market to get the thing off the ground at all . |
| 15 | The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
| 16 | … whether he himself — straight now — did n't understand that when it came to saving one 's life in the dark , one did n't care who else went — three , thirty , three hundred people . |
| 17 | The fact was , the beleaguered prime minister explained to a restive House of Commons , that when it came to income maintenance , history had turned the welfare state on its head . |
| 18 | The fact that the lane runs so wide and straight also tells us that when it came into existence the open arable fields of Barton and Wootton did not yet extend so far . |
| 19 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 20 | Yet , if he was honest , he found that when it came right down to it , he wanted to call the shots , not have them called . |
| 21 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 22 | She smiled , and did n't care a bit then that when it came to leading Travis up the garden path , she was doing a little garden path trail-blazing herself . |
| 23 | Ten minutes afterwards she had filled every available space on the card with news of her journey and her impressions of beautiful Mariánské Láznë , so that when it came to penning a signature there was barely any room for her own name , let alone room to add Cara 's . |
| 24 | I am pleased that when it came to the crunch I tried to help the people calling for help instead of thinking about what might happen . |
| 25 | anyway we , we had a petition that when it came up that er , that the new E E C rules were coming in that they would , they 'd going to have to have a clean way if you are you are and a dirty way out you know |
| 26 | I was so purified and uplifted that when I came out and discovered my car had been towed away and I 'd have to fork out 70 quid , I was completely unruffled . |
| 27 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 28 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
| 29 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
| 30 | I confess that when I came into the room more than twenty years — slipped away . ’ |