Example sentences of "but when they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she was afraid that animals might take them , but when they went noisily along the path she still hoped that one day the man would be waiting there for them , beside the pile of stones . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | They were both crying now and holding each other tightly , but when they flopped down on to the couch their tears turned to laughter and Victoria , wiping her face , said , ‘ Do you know something , girl ? |
| 4 | Before others his attitude was deferential and circumspect but when they rode alone , he treated her with the easy familiarity of an equal . |
| 5 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 6 | Cos usu when they go away , cos they 're not going away this weekend , but when they go away you should come down cos the flat 's quiet and I ai n't got nothing to do , sit and play my computer . |
| 7 | The voice was just overhead , but when they looked up there was no one there . |
| 8 | Then they ran and they ran , but when they looked back , Baba Yaga had managed to burst her way out of the oven , and was running after them , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 9 | They did not think they were alone in feeling isolated in the business world , but when they sent out invitations to the inaugural meeting on 14 July , with an explanation of what they were trying to achieve , they were staggered by the response . |
| 10 | If people want to kill themselves , that 's their affair , but when they come here I want to give them food which will do them food rather than harm . |
| 11 | I do n't know how long they 're staying but when they come here it is usually impossible to get rid of them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But when they come back , I 'll ask them ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | with me , you play the rule , but when they came in and they said all this |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 18 | ‘ But when they came back from New York , Edward was quite different . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The aim was to toss bombs into them as they drove past , but when they got there they discovered that the sentries were being changed . |
| 22 | Vincent wanted to introduce Rappard to his uncle , but when they got there , the old man — never in good health — was ill in bed . |
| 23 | But when they got back , he barely spoke to them . |
| 24 | Faye said nothing more about it , but when they got home she announced that she would take her blood-sugar level and evening insulin dose in her room and then lie down on her bed until dinner . |
| 25 | When they were away , there was always the worry that they would never come back but when they got home , they always brought with them gossip of other places and other people . |
| 26 | They go to the ball , she is indeed admired by everyone there but when they get home she realises she has lost the necklace . |
| 27 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 28 | But when they fly home to Karachi at the end of the month they are in danger of being remembered as cricket 's chumps , not champs . |
| 29 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 30 | In the beginning , a team of French builders was hired , but when they did not respond to his treatment of them as an army detachment , he fired them and barked orders at Anthony instead . |