Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when they reached the embankment , Preston had second thoughts . |
| 2 | But when they reached the railway line and Mister Johnny set the goose down and said , ‘ Gurlyi , gurlyi , ’ she knew what he was trying to say . |
| 3 | But when they reached the Grove , Carrie felt a little less bold . |
| 4 | But when they reached the implementation stage , in which their orientation was to concrete tasks and the skills required of them were chiefly technical , then they became more directive and used client participation less . |
| 5 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 6 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 7 | But when they reached the drawing room , the only people there were Mrs Denham and Martin , and the baby , which was sitting in a high chair . |
| 8 | And one does n't expect thanks , of course , but when they use the handout — and then turn round and start blaspheming , you really do want to chuck the whole business up , and go and become a monk , or something . ’ |
| 9 | But when they took the wind advantage Harrogate also took control , crossing Driffield 's line for four tries through number eight Jeremy Hopkinson with a push-over , county prop John Woodthorpe from a tap penalty move and rolling maul , Steve Baker from the line-out before driving over , and Adam Pearson from a back move finished off under the crossbar . |
| 10 | But when they took the wind advantage Harrogate also took control , crossing Driffield 's line for four tries through number eight Jeremy Hopkinson with a push-over , county prop John Woodthorpe from a tap penalty move and rolling maul , Steve Baker from the line-out before driving over , and Adam Pearson from a back move finished off under the crossbar . |
| 11 | He invited the AFPFL to submit names , but when they demanded the right to nominate a bloc of their own people to the council he rejected their terms and chose his own council from among superannuated pre-war politicians . |
| 12 | As your readers read they may be delighted with what you are doing , but when they reach the end of the book they will be less pleased with the whole rather than they might have been . |
| 13 | But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression . |
| 14 | But when they left the building he turned without explanation to the left and down the steps to Birdcage Walk . |
| 15 | Er but when they changed the room round I moved to the because and I became a director of the for a while fo three f four years something like that . |
| 16 | ‘ But when they do the whatsit … ’ |
| 17 | But when they hit the power surge of ‘ Culte Des Mortes ( 1 ) ’ or the vicious intro and flowing guitars of ‘ Injecting Out ’ , the Fix stroll into the left-field and cause a serious ruckus . |
| 18 | But when they hit the power surge of ‘ Culte Des Mortes ( 1 ) ’ or the vicious intro and flowing guitars of ‘ Injecting Out ’ , the Fix stroll into the left-field and cause a serious ruckus . |
| 19 | I 've known very independent career women who 'd do anything to reach the top , but when they have a baby they suddenly decide to take two years out . |
| 20 | I opened a bottle of wine , I know this is a very strange question , but when somebody brings a bottle of wine , do you open that first , or do you open ? |
| 21 | But when one considers the subject matter of some of the public law interests which have generated litigation ( e.g. remission of sentence , obtaining council housing ) this assumption appears absurd . |
| 22 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 23 | Somebody re-mixed You 're My Best Friend the other day and I always thought it would be nice to re-balance that stuff , but when we got the tape out , it was all on one track , so that 's it . ’ |
| 24 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We can see the funny side now but when we get a report like that , we have to respond . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But when we saw the tape we realised they were n't world beaters after all . |
| 26 | But when we evaluate the inventory , |
| 27 | But when we left the capital with its taxis playing Strauss over Beijing Radio and travelled on the diesel train through the countryside , we found that in the rural areas change comes more slowly . |
| 28 | Yeah , but when we have a pint and a half o er , pound and a half of mince so you should have a three quarters of a pint . |
| 29 | We were all set to be impressed , but when we entered the room , it turned out that she was a tiny-little lady with grinning peasant features and the usual pudding-basin haircut . |
| 30 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |