Example sentences of "but when [pers pn] come [adv] he " in BNC.

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1 The injured man fainted but when he came round he managed to dislodge his hand from the fence and made his way home with the blade still stuck in the wound .
2 ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one .
3 erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century .
4 But when he came down he was different ,
5 But when he comes down he said oh look , he said the back springs are naffed , I mean , yeah that back suspension 's
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