Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 2 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 3 | But when they came back into court on 14 February it was obvious what they were going to say — I had watched these people for a year , I could read them . |
| 4 | ‘ But when they came back from New York , Edward was quite different . |
| 5 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 6 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 7 | The pebble beach is dirtier than they realize but when they stand up from it clinging shell-dust and subversive oil-slicks and persistent grime will fall away from their white robes , leaving them untouched , pristine , still-saintly . |
| 8 | but when they crawl down in the hall they they 're no bigger than |
| 9 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 10 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 11 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 12 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 13 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 14 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 15 | But when we go out on the pitch , I hope he has a stinker . |
| 16 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 17 | But when we come out of it , things will be great . ’ |
| 18 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 19 | ‘ As students at Edinburgh College of Art , we always said we would buy a castle and do it up , but when it came around to it most of them had been restored , but Lachlan knew of Ballone Castle near Portmahomack which was still derelict and persuaded the farmer to sell it . ’ |
| 20 | I never did , but when it came up for auction , it just seemed like it would make her smile , and the money was going to a good cause , too . |
| 21 | But when it came down to it , it was the people who did n't really know Lancashire who found Walter Machin impressive . |
| 22 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 23 | But when it comes up for the real audit , what job , is it going to encourage jobs that are audited . |
| 24 | But when it comes down to it , the V8 is more a car for drivers than passengers . |
| 25 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 26 | But when it comes down to it , they 're just another extension of the posing and preening junk-culture metal showing now on MTV heavy rotation . |
| 27 | But when it comes down to it , Oswaldston is n't the sort of place one visits , is it ? what ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You might be a whizz at your job , you might have the charisma of ten men , but when it comes down to normal decent human values you 're nothing . |
| 29 | Great sporting moments have many facets but when it comes down to thrills and spill and leaving the pulses racing , the National is hard to beat . |
| 30 | But when it comes down to it , they 're just another extension of the posing and preening junk-culture metal showing now on MTV heavy rotation . |