Example sentences of "but when he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scully , Wakefield 's experienced scrum-half , gained 50 yards in a magnificent run ; but when he released the ball it was dropped and their last hopes faded . |
| 2 | I found a plumber , but when he saw the solid fuel monster in the kitchen , he paled visibly . |
| 3 | But when he saw the strength of the gale he was seized with fear ; and beginning to sink , he cried , ‘ Save me , Lord . ’ |
| 4 | When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people . |
| 5 | But when he ordered a bottle of chilled white wine she said quickly , ‘ Not for me . ’ |
| 6 | But when he lifted the upturned boat and peered into the hollow beneath it he found nothing there . |
| 7 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 8 | He seemed about to leave — walked to the door , in any case — but when he reached the foot of the bed , he took hold of the brass upright and pulled the bed out into the room ; then he carried a second ladderback chair to the head of the bed and sat down behind Annie . |
| 9 | But when he reached the Club she was there already . |
| 10 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 11 | The view ahead was obscured by a section of partially completed walling at the east end , but when he reached the comer Zen fount that the only unpredictable feature of the landscape was a river which cut across the track about a hundred metres further on . |
| 12 | A firemen climbed an extension ladder and edged along the wall but when he reached the scene the yellow-topped fledgeling flew away . |
| 13 | But when he popped the question she said : ‘ I 'll tell you when I see you . ’ |
| 14 | But when he surmised the attack was due that night , Tom Ingledew agreed that they would have to sacrifice some fighting capacity on that front — and even some lives — in order to gain the maximum advantage from keeping the sloop as a decoy . |
| 15 | Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers . |
| 16 | But when he wrote a cheque to pay his poll tax bill it was five pence short of the £122.97p owed to Suffolk Coastal Council . |
| 17 | But when he sniffed the whole house was full of the smell of the soup . |
| 18 | But when he received the Spectator-Highland Park award at a lunch in London , Mr Lawson declined to discuss his departure from the Government . |
| 19 | But when he received the Spectator-Highland Park award at a lunch in London , Mr Lawson declined to discuss his departure from the Government . |
| 20 | But when he received the registration document , it detailed a 1275cc engine . |
| 21 | And erm but when he took the stitch it 's covered it up . |
| 22 | But when he tossed the beef into the sizzling oil , it somehow exploded out of the pot ‘ like a canister of napalm ’ , splashing over his arms and starting a kitchen fire , which Dustin promptly and stupidly tried to put out with his hands . |
| 23 | As Dan pointed out , ‘ Jeff 's an amazing guitar player , but when he branded the T-Ride logo onto his arm , we were sold . ’ |
| 24 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 25 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 26 | At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol . |
| 27 | But when he punctured the lesion , blood came out and he knew he was dealing with an aneuyrism . |
| 28 | But when he finishes a movie he is still apt to ‘ break out and go a bit mad . |
| 29 | The Collector had half expected the rains to begin during the night , but when he awoke the sky was cloudless once more ; he could sense , however , that they would not be long coming . |
| 30 | But when he presented the bill to Hurley for reimbursement , Hurley refused to pay , insisting the DEA field office in Los Angeles should pick up the tab . |