Example sentences of "when [prep] [adj] [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 2 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 3 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 4 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 5 | When at last he came to his senses , rather ashamed of his lapse into sensitivity , the floor around him was thickly carpeted with tiny discarded wings , as if with the residue of his own aerial poetic thoughts . |
| 6 | When at last he came , he hurried through the burial prayers , and as quickly as possible ( it was only a job , after all ) the coffin was put into the ground . |
| 7 | When at last he came to see her , he obviously believed in the story of the German and she was too proud to tell him the truth . |
| 8 | They almost missed the man when at last he came . |