Example sentences of "when i came to " in BNC.

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1 I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept .
2 I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home .
3 When I came to the Market Cross I stopped .
4 I missed this when I came to your house , ’ Maggie said quietly .
5 When I came to Hollywood in 1950 , the studio system was still in place but it was crumbling , ’ he told the author .
6 When I came to , I was used as one of their slaves and one of the men tried to kill my father .
7 I got on the vehicle but the driver had not long been in fourth gear when I came to my senses .
8 When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all .
9 The leading conductor , when I came to CBR , was Percy Harvey , who held the baton on such shows as ‘ By the Sea ’ and ‘ Music From the Pacific ’ , while an Hungarian violinist from Budapest , Jean deRimanoczy , conducted a string orchestra in ‘ Music for Today ’ .
10 When I came to Rangers I knew I 'd have to change attitudes .
11 This , then , was the Jamaican norm , and when I came to Britain , which was still in the throes of the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ , I found the comparative indiscipline in schools difficult to cope with .
12 The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting .
13 When I came to Ampeg I had a whole book full of design ideas — everything drawn out and ready to go — which I presented them with , and the amps that you 're seeing right now are almost exactly what was in that book .
14 Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work .
15 Later , when I came to be regressed myself , I was curious as to whether I would ‘ remember ’ anything of a Tudor existence .
16 When I came to I was in the cabin at the end of M.3 and still having a saline transfusion .
17 ‘ I met Meli twice , when I came to London while he was living with her .
18 When I came to the bank there was a lot of fear about , ’ said chief executive Brian Pearse .
19 When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter .
20 Then when I came to the third I did not like it .
21 So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs .
22 When I came to Seville , I said I was no longer No 1 — I was No 10,000 .
23 When I came to planning the circuit I realised there would actually have to be two routes — a high level one , leading over the crest of the fells , and a low level alternative for unfavourable weather .
24 When I came to be searched , an earnest young man asked me : ‘ Please could you leave the paper on one side and pick it up afterwards ? ’
25 When I came to Harlow I was stuck by what a lovely neat town it was then erm but there were er absolutely no posters anywhere in Harlow .
26 I must have fainted , and when I came to I did n't know who I was or where I 'd come from . "
27 When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years .
28 But when I came to this country …
29 I was twenty-five years old when I came to England , and I am forty-five now .
30 ‘ And when I came to England , I did not want to kill your Queen .
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