Example sentences of "but when [pron] arrived " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 2 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But when they arrived , Morris did n't seem particularly interested in them — not , anyway , enough to stop watching the television . |
| 5 | Joe saw an opportunity to get the couple to visit a branch to pick up a ‘ replacement ’ card but when they arrived the police moved in and detained them . |
| 6 | But when they arrived , they were attacked by Norman White , a hit man hired by Stroud and her boyfriend , Mark Evans . |
| 7 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 8 | Paul Young shared his taxi with Nigel Dempsey and Christopher MacPherson but when they arrived in Hemlington , Middlesbrough , Mr Young was invited to go with them for a drink . |
| 9 | But when they arrived to start pulling down the George hotel at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , they were confronted by two hundred angry protesters . |
| 10 | We booked a table in a restaurant for our office Christmas party but when we arrived they had no record of the booking we made . |
| 11 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 12 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 13 | At the time , the year of expiry would hardly have seemed significant , but when it arrived , Champagne was still recovering from four years of German occupation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |
| 16 | ‘ When I left my home in Stellenbosch it was almost 30C , but when I arrived in Japan it was very , very cold . |
| 17 | You see , to let you understand , this was maybe about four or five years after nationalization and prior to nationalization of course , was under the L M S , Street Station and were under the L M S and was under the L N E R. But when I arrived at , I heard them talking about the Callie see , the Callie railway . |
| 18 | The 27-year-old from Madrid had started yesterday 's penultimate leg with a comfortable lead of 1min 36sec , but when he arrived at Newcastle last night it had been trimmed to 31sec . |
| 19 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |
| 20 | He secured two admission tickets but when he arrived he found they were only good for the front doors where ‘ already hundreds were waiting ’ . |
| 21 | He said that he had a video which he would bring round , but when he arrived he claimed to have lost it and still did n't provide a written description , so I would n't tell him where the dogs were . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Before Sean Connery , Scotland was a dreary , windswept place populated by gray Presbyterians with haemorrhoids , but when he arrived there was , at last , a Scottish film star doing things that Scottish men love to do — shooting people and shagging the survivors . ’ |
| 24 | But when he arrived there the British embassy expressed fears that his scarred features would only reinforce anti-involvement sentiments among American parents . |
| 25 | But when she arrived at Grittleton to find an illegitimate daughter living there just as though she was one of the family , Lady Caroline stormed out . |
| 26 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 27 | ‘ But when she arrived Terry had all the Press there waiting to see her . |
| 28 | But when she arrived at the hotel , Miss Crossland , 27 , claimed she ‘ was fobbed off all morning waiting for the cheque ’ . |
| 29 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 30 | But when she arrived back at Green Gables , Anne knew at once that something was wrong . |