Example sentences of "but when you [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But when you keep the big names supplied with a particular kind of amusement you can always depend on it that the police are found to be in the wrong , or that they are framing an innocent man , or that the children in question are his nieces .
2 Darren explained : ‘ They have graphite shafts which react in the same way as steel , but when you strike the ball they absorb the vibration .
3 yeah I understand that , but when you use the phrase itself as a competition , that erm , that did n't seem quite square with what we were saying yesterday
4 But when you 've a bun in the oven
5 But when you walk the streets you still pass the prostitutes , the drug takers , the street scum and the unpleasant smell of poverty .
6 I must say , I had certain ambitions for higher education myself , but when you receive the call , as they say , those cherished dreams just have to go by the board .
7 Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’
8 Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’
9 But when you lift a corpse that looks anything but a corpse , it 's terrifying .
10 But when you get a senior foreign statesman commenting abroad how much the world respects Mrs Thatcher — that 's a real PR coup .
11 but when you get a co , like you call flu , it 's usually just a head cold .
12 Rain said : ‘ But when you had the gun you did n't stop the fight . ’
13 It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said
14 But when you buy a council house it is slightly different in as much as some some of them wo n't have them .
15 I know that it does not affect the sound of the instrument , but when you pay the extra for cosmetic details , you expect it to be excellent , not scarred .
16 The style you define will appear in the Style menu for that document , along with the predefined ones , but when you start a fresh letter , Word will default to its own style ( called Normal ) .
17 I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money .
18 But when you explore the same region of the visual field with a moving spot you get a result that you could not have predicted from the responses with stationary spots .
19 Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree .
20 Place the colour key in the first two rows as described above but when you save the design to memory , miss out the first two rows , placing the save box to start on the third row of squares .
21 It 's a funny thing , but when you see a client about something you very often see him soon again about something else .
22 I 'll be absolutely open with you — we do have difficulties over cash , but when you see the business we 've got lined up … well , this time next year I 'll expect the bank to be standing me a slap-up lunch !
23 But when you see the inside … ’
24 The pilots used to say it 's a pilots ' plane — when you flew a Hurricane the pilot flew the plane , but when you flew a Spitfire , it flew itself .
25 erm What happens if erm your boss is n't on the phone and their boss has transferred all their calls to the other phone , the other phone rings as well as the secretaries ring , so you pick it up on your phone , which is R star star 3 , and then you want to get it through to the boss , but when you ring the number it comes through to the other phone .
26 But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’
27 But when you have a 4,000-year history of being ruled by Phoenicians , Carthaginians , Romans , Goths , Spaniards and British ( 1718 ) , a fortnight 's foraging by the bleached denim wing of the industrial proletariat is barely worth a shrug .
28 But when you have a solar eclipse in your sign at Christmas , things are going a bit too far .
29 ‘ All parents worry , but when you have a child with something like Maisie has the worry is obviously more .
30 But when you have a community centre like street that is which a joint you can see the value of of of maintaining it as a a paid for as a a a erm and be substantial volunteer input that exists .
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