Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 2 | They were both crying now and holding each other tightly , but when they flopped down on to the couch their tears turned to laughter and Victoria , wiping her face , said , ‘ Do you know something , girl ? |
| 3 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 4 | The voice was just overhead , but when they looked up there was no one there . |
| 5 | Then they ran and they ran , but when they looked back , Baba Yaga had managed to burst her way out of the oven , and was running after them , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 6 | They did not think they were alone in feeling isolated in the business world , but when they sent out invitations to the inaugural meeting on 14 July , with an explanation of what they were trying to achieve , they were staggered by the response . |
| 7 | ‘ But when they come back , I 'll ask them ! ’ |
| 8 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 9 | with me , you play the rule , but when they came in and they said all this |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
| 11 | But when they came back into court on 14 February it was obvious what they were going to say — I had watched these people for a year , I could read them . |
| 12 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 13 | ‘ But when they came back from New York , Edward was quite different . |
| 14 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 15 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 16 | But when they got back , he barely spoke to them . |
| 17 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 18 | The pebble beach is dirtier than they realize but when they stand up from it clinging shell-dust and subversive oil-slicks and persistent grime will fall away from their white robes , leaving them untouched , pristine , still-saintly . |
| 19 | but when they crawl down in the hall they they 're no bigger than |
| 20 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 21 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 22 | He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well . |
| 23 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 24 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 25 | But when we got back we had to lie down in front of the video for a bit . |
| 26 | But when we got out they stared and said nothing , and I followed the pilot up the lane they made . |
| 27 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm only one of the selectors , of course , but when we get back home we will have to start sorting out what our best team is to play against Australia during the summer . |
| 29 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 30 | But when we go out on the pitch , I hope he has a stinker . |