Conditional inclination with ようと思ったら


I've started listening to Japanese podcasts more frequently to cultivate my
audio comprehension, and I've encountered an expression I am not confident
that I understand.

The female broadcaster jokingly asks the male broadcaster what year in the
Heisei era they're in...

> F: さって、平成何年でしょうか。  
>  M: 「平成何年でしょうか」？そんな風に止めてくださいよ！  
>  F: はい。私も、今、そこで調べ **ようと思ったら** ですね？

I know that the basic meaning of the ようと思う construct is "(I) think (I) will X"
where "X" is the verb ending in the volitional よう, and my guess would be
ようと思ったら means something like "If (I) think (I) will X" or "If (I'm) going to
X," so I'm taking this sentence to mean something like "I (should) look into
it now if I'm going to, right?"




It means "I had intended to check it". She's saying "I agree. You know, just
now, I had intended to check it."

She said 思ったら because the guy stopped her before she managed to check it. If
she used 〜と思ったけどね it'd mean the same thing, without the 'being stopped by you'
implied.

