Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 2 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 3 | I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time . |
| 4 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 5 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 6 | By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier . |
| 7 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 8 | Originally he worked from Shrewsbury on the Bristol run and then on the West Country routes when he moved to Old Oak Common , London . |