Example sentences of "only when i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie . |
| 2 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 3 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 4 | Only when I had the body in my hand did see it was a goldcrest . |
| 5 | I learnt to do arithmetic only when I opened the tea stall . |
| 6 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |