Example sentences of "only [Wh adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he took his BA at Oxford Wren 's forename was Percy ; during his years in the IES he changed this to Percival , and it was only when he became an author that he added Christopher . |
| 2 | It was only when he had followed Cornelius most of the way across the room that the significance of what had just happened dawned on him . |
| 3 | This his initial astonishment , lines lacking the and receptor all appeared quite normal , and it was only when he had made lines lacking two isoforms at once that clear effects were seen ( thank God , he added ) . |
| 4 | Worried by their absence , it was only when he had contacted the superintendent of the building — who seemed to know everything that happened in the neighbourhood — that he 'd learned exactly what had happened to Laura and the twins . |
| 5 | It was only when he felt her going limp against him that he stopped and lifted his head . |
| 6 | It was only when he plunged , wallet-first , into the great post-war building wave that people began to take notice . |
| 7 | It was only when he began having fantasies about space men that he was really in there with the hit . |
| 8 | It was only when he paused … that the tension was relaxed . ’ |
| 9 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 10 | It was only when he got closer that Sibele saw the blood on the sleeve of his blue overall . |
| 11 | It was only when he got back to the Star Dressing Room after the performance that Charles fully took in its luxurious appointments . |
| 12 | It was only when he reached the closed doors that he remembered that it was Sunday . |
| 13 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 14 | It was only when he came to 1936 that Damiani 's face grew suddenly cold and his hands , until now resting quietly on his knees , began to move in agitation . |
| 15 | It was only when he remarked , ‘ You know Brigadier Mills Roberts and the Brigade Major , Piper ? ’ |
| 16 | It was only when he drew her back by her arms that she opened her eyes wide and stared at him . |
| 17 | It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realized what it was that was so different . |
| 18 | It was only when he turned to the more immediate problem of finding a way through the waste of mud that Zen noticed the figure lying slumped against the wall . |
| 19 | His quarrel with the British was not about whether dominion status was an adequate offer , but over whether they were sincere in making it , and it was only when he concluded , in 1919 , that they were not , that he launched mass non-co-operation to get it . |
| 20 | It was only when he moved round to the side that he saw the blue , chapped ears and the hair , frozen and brittle , as if you could snap it off . |