Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] arrived at the " in BNC.

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1 But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity .
2 But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all .
3 Mr Wormwood did n't notice anything when he put the hat on , but when he arrived at the garage he could n't get it off .
4 But when she arrived at the hotel , Miss Crossland , 27 , claimed she ‘ was fobbed off all morning waiting for the cheque ’ .
5 He took her in his car up to one of the few routes over the Apennines , but when she arrived at the pass , the Passo della Cisa , and saw the undulating , never-ending hills , she panicked .
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