Example sentences of "came when " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 2 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 3 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 4 | Recognition that London 's traffic problems are reaching seizure point came when BR announced schemes for two new cross-city links costing £2,000 million — links between Paddington and Liverpool Street , and from King 's Cross/Euston to Victoria ; plus a tube line from Hainault to Wimbledon via Chelsea and Hackney . |
| 5 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 6 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |
| 7 | The lowest point — and there were many vying for the honour — came when Richard Langhorn , Quins ' lanky No. 8 , went off , head bloodied , after just 14 minutes , the victim of — at best — a misguided boot . |
| 8 | And the really crushing blow came when the owner of his star performer , Joveworth , removed the horse from the yard . |
| 9 | Knighton 's fiercest response came when he was asked about reported demands . |
| 10 | The first came when the group reported what seemed to be rather minor problems at its parts side . |
| 11 | A similar occurrence came when NHS ambulance drivers also stopped work . |
| 12 | The crunch came when Malcolm returned from America . |
| 13 | The logical culmination of the process came when the pop singer and song-writer Elton John took over the chairmanship of Watford . |
| 14 | But women would never be equal , he reflected , pleased to have discovered a new profundity , until the day came when men stopped thinking it natural that their wives should always have the smaller car . |
| 15 | The only failure came when Jon Wensley refused to skate ( coward ! ! ) . |
| 16 | The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back and demanded I pay off the overdraft at once . |
| 17 | The South-West 's late try came when Clough was sent a hospital pass and Fallon booted the loose ball over the line . |
| 18 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 19 | AFTERWARDS the typical expatriate had less money , and liked Pau because it went further ; and the servants still came when you pressed the bell . |
| 20 | The break came when Turkey 's foreign minister arrived in Baghdad to assert that the Kurdish autonomous area with the proposed expanded powers was too autonomous for Turkey 's liking , and that the agreement , at that point awaiting signature , should not be implemented . |
| 21 | The first sign of the boom in Gaelic came when a Gaelic-speaking school on Belfast 's Falls Road — the Bunscoil — saw the number of applicants soar . |
| 22 | The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud . |
| 23 | A flicker of hope came when three West Indian wickets went down for 69 , but then it was Haynes ' turn to come good after a disappointing series . |
| 24 | The next upset came when he was chosen for the 1948–9 tour of India but asked , as a professional , to be paid £250 ; the WICBC refused , Worrell declined to back down , and he did not go . |
| 25 | My first choice had always been a pay review body and the significant breakthrough came when Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan at the Treasury also backed this proposal . |
| 26 | The climax came when , on 24 March 1980 , as he celebrated Mass , a shot rang out . |
| 27 | But the moment of deepest ministry came when ugly spots appeared on his hands and face . |
| 28 | For the right , the real crisis came when appeasement proved to be a bankrupt policy as Britain drifted towards war in September 1939 . |
| 29 | Later , a great step came when we started making films . |
| 30 | The turning point came when , thousands of miles away from the series ’ Melbourne home , the then controller of the BBC 's main channel ripped up his schedules in a bid to beat plunging ratings . |