Example sentences of "but [conj] i went [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I awoke next morning to a brilliant pearly light , but when I went to the window , no sea was visible . |
| 2 | " Forgive me , " he said to Sir Edmund , " but when I went to the Commissioner , whom I know slightly , I understood that the police would be good enough to look into our problem . |
| 3 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 4 | but when I went in the other week , they all sit in a circle like that , then there 's a space and the teacher stands there and she was telling a story about the independent princess who does n't fall in love with the prince in the end , it was a quite funny story |
| 5 | I wanted to find someone to help Mrs Hobbs but as I went to the desk , she was already being carried through the door . |