Example sentences of "but when he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he went to take his seat again on the settle , she said , ‘ There 's no need for you to hang about ; get yourself away . |
| 2 | But when he went to pick it up he was horrified to discover it was one of Isaac 's geese . |
| 3 | His father happened to be passing , shortly after the attack , but when he went to help , he did n't recognise his own son . |
| 4 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 5 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 6 | Hopefully , she waited for him to return to her side , but when he failed to do so she realised that whatever he had been about to say would be left unsaid . |
| 7 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ she protested , but when he continued to stand there , glowering threateningly down at her , she shrugged and took a small , cautious sip . |
| 9 | I started a stage snore and I thought that together we must drown any other noise he could make , but when he began to use his saw it seemed to be the only noise in the carriage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 12 | But when he asked to bring Bobby Hunt he was careful to explain why : ‘ He 's quite talented and would enjoy making drawings so enormously , as he never seems to get out of town : please do n't hesitate to say no if it would be akward [ sic ] , he 's only about eighteen and quite manageable , and we will bring some food … ’ |
| 13 | He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’ |
| 14 | Myles took the tall silk hat from his head and the stick from his hand , but when he offered to take off his overcoat , Father Poole waved him away . |
| 15 | When he speaks an aside to us , in his own person , it is in verse : He continues in their prose , but when he wants to express his respect for them and offer his services , he moves up to verse : ‘ I 'll show thee the best springs ; I 'll pluck thee berries ; /I 'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough ’ ( 160f . ) . |
| 16 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But when he tried to picture her face , all he could see was Madra , and the grave eyes under the dark brows . |
| 21 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 22 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 23 | Tesselmann 's fingers twitched but when he tried to speak it escaped from his lips as a gurgle . |
| 24 | Nathan was awestruck with the audacity of it all , but when he turned to tell me how impressed he was I was asleep . |
| 25 | But when he turned to look , she was gone and Marcus was talking to someone else . |
| 26 | I was better at maths and science and practical things — you only had to show him a lathe in the metal workshop for him to pretend he had a fainting fit but when he wanted to beat me , he beat me . |
| 27 | 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 . |