Example sentences of "but when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when their own country ( the country of Lord Nuffield and Montague Norman ) was in danger , their attitude was very different . |
| 2 | But when its current owners moved in in 1970 the kitchen was still very much the same . |
| 3 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 4 | it does n't , but when he first sort of put it up , I thought oh crumbs look at that |
| 5 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 6 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 7 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 8 | But when his own father needs to be rescued little Daniele is too busy to lift a finger , like the rest of you . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 10 | They are lumps on the floor , ridiculous in their underpants , but when our dead eyes meet , a message is passed . |
| 11 | But when your German friends saw us doing this , they hooted with derision . |
| 12 | I have to explain to everyone that I 'm not so much of a monomaniac as this collection makes me seem , but when my old man died , thirty years ago , he left me his paintings . |
| 13 | But when my eighth birthday came I found it among my presents , with a little card from my father . ’ |