Example sentences of "but when he [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Sacrae cantiones of 1573 Joachim a Burck ( 1646–1610 ) had employed chromaticism and the other devices of musica reservata to underline the sense of the Biblical texts , but when he began to set the very personal religious verse of Ludwig Helmbold — Latin odes and German Liedlein — the relationship between text and music became much closer , even madrigalian , and he himself claimed he had provided the 40 deutsche christl . |
| 2 | Putt turned to go inside his room , but when he tried to close the door , his mother 's foot prevented it and she pushed past him . |
| 3 | From what Davide could follow , he agreed with his father , rather than his friend ; but when he tried to voice an opinion he sounded to his own ears savourless and dull , eager to agree with authority , fearful to break out across the frontiers of duty and obedience and honour . |
| 4 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 5 | But when he tries to draw a larger moral ( an arraignment of the Thatcherite Eighties , needless to say ) he slips into soft-headed nostalgia for the wonderful lost world of Communist ideals . |