Example sentences of "but when you [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always check the area you are sailing into to allow for the time when you will be facing battlements but when you crouch in the middle of the boat , do keep an eye on the boom or you 'll end up with a nasty bump on the head . |
| 2 | as though he could walk , but when you came to the door , here . |
| 3 | But when you got to the options , now |
| 4 | Er well I do n't want to make a long speech , ladies and gentlemen , but when you return to the States I hope you 'll take some happy memories with you and remember , we have not forgot you , especially those chaps who failed to return . |
| 5 | But when you know without a shadow of a doubt that , even without doing anything clever , you have pulled an animal back from the brink of death into the living , breathing world , it is a satisfaction which lingers , flowing like balm over the discomforts and frustrations of veterinary practice , making everything right . |
| 6 | But when you go through the house you wear this . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But when you looked into the wings you did know . |
| 8 | Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’ |
| 9 | But when you get to the end of your book and your detective explains why the poor chap had to be murdered with porcupine quills your readers are likely to start trying to imagine what happened when the murder took place . |
| 10 | but , when you go into the passage his door , he 's got the door into the front room , same as ours , on the left , but when you get into the bottom of the passage , there 's a brick wall in front of ya , and it comes round and his door to the back dining room is on this side here |
| 11 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 12 | It 's like the widows might , but when you think of the way |
| 13 | it 's forty then going that way , but when you think of the taxi , gee |
| 14 | And in a relatively small way , but when you think of the other universities doing the same sort of thing , in a larger way , we are offering this kind of opportunity to people . |
| 15 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 16 | But when you look at the newspapers from those years , they are filled with crimes and every kind of horror . |
| 17 | But when you look at the cost of those units |
| 18 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 19 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
| 20 | ‘ He is spending big at Liverpool again but when you operate at the top end of the market prices will always be high . ’ |