Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even telephoned Wexford to tell him about it , his elation subsiding somewhat when he heard the chief inspector had also found this out three hours before . |
| 2 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 3 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 4 | Nigel got cross only when she brought the short , greasy misfits home . |
| 5 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 6 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 7 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 8 | But he did not mind God saying it , especially when he felt the kindly grip on his shoulder . |
| 9 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 10 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 11 | So when he saw the 301 project it gave him the idea of using ultra-modern airframe and engine technology and aerodynamics to achieve the same magic numbers with a single turboprop instead of two kerosene-guzzling pure jets . |
| 12 | She called out to the night-nurse who scurried over when she saw the red smear on the stiff white pillowcase . |
| 13 | JUST when they thought the good times were coming to an end , Japanese building firms are being given a batch of orders for huge infrastructure projects . |
| 14 | It came just when we thought the powerful combination of Horan and Jason Little had produced the try of the day , the latter making a typically powerful break to send Horan gliding between the posts with the Baa-Baas defence dismantled . |
| 15 | JUST when you thought the English palate was becoming more sophisticated than fish and chips ( a great , great meal , mark you ) the office restaurant has a Chinese Day . |
| 16 | Her song was cut short when she saw the filthy knapsack sitting on the new , pink broadloom and making a smudge against the blush pink wall . |
| 17 | She listed the points she wanted to make , ticking them off when she found the precise words she wanted to use . |
| 18 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | She was roused from this reverie seconds later when he gulped the last of the juice and said , ‘ I know what Faye 's ‘ few minutes ’ mean . |
| 20 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 21 | The same symptom recurred a year later when she took the oral contraceptive pill . |
| 22 | She followed his eyes downwards and cringed inwardly when she realised the top buttons of her shirt had come undone . |
| 23 | She tensed to spring at her escort , but relaxed slightly when she heard the familiar voice : ‘ I hope I remember the stories correctly . ’ |
| 24 | Gorphal picked up the parchment and raised one eyebrow slightly when he saw the familiar ideograms of the Golden Empire . |
| 25 | Because I think in the so called Good Old Days , you always did stand up when you heard the National Anthem played . |
| 26 | ‘ We only found out when we saw the Daily Mirror , ’ said Craig , who lives with Julie and their three other children in Luton , Beds . |
| 27 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 28 | Well when we had the open day and we had a lot of people round here ! |
| 29 | Sorge did n't stir , even when they mentioned the gruesome spectacle of Trimmler 's arms folded in the sign of a swastika . |
| 30 | He did n't look effeminate , even when you considered the plain gold ring that pierced his left earlobe . |