Example sentences of "but when [pron] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S MINERS DO vital job in gruelling conditions but when they went on strike they sacrificed all their earnings and were attacked by the police . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 6 | ‘ And you know the two foresters who live here in the village : they 're fine when they 're at home , but when they go to the village they 're responsible for , in Dolpo , I bet they carry on like all the others do , terrorizing people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's all right when the children are here but when everybody goes I am back on my own all day . |
| 9 | But when everything goes really well , he says to them , ‘ You did it ! ’ |
| 10 | But when we go out on the pitch , I hope he has a stinker . |
| 11 | ‘ I know that , but when we go away I do n't want it to be for business — I want to have you all to myself . ’ |
| 12 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |
| 13 | We were surprised to see this fantastic marble everywhere — on the table tops , on the benches , on the counters — but when we went back there three years later the place was a total mess . |
| 14 | They said that another friend would look after her , but when we went to see her a month later , she looked absolutely awful , in a field all on her own and full of worms . |
| 15 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 16 | But when we went on strike they started making slate , so in a way they were scabs too , in these two officials , officials not touched a slate if they were er not making slate before , why should they make slate when we were on strike ? |
| 17 | Daph had decided on cream for the walls of the bedroom but when we went to the paint store she discovered that the word cream covered a multitude of shades . |
| 18 | But when we went to Arch the school at Archbishop 's the two lads that went , they had to pack all these various different acid carboys . |
| 19 | But when we went to Holland , a rather different picture emerged . |
| 20 | All three lost one of their eight matches , but when it went to the frames count-back All Ireland champion Watson was the group winner with Dale pipping Sharpe for the crucial second place . |
| 21 | ‘ But when it went I thought I needed an operation . |
| 22 | But when it went to National , everything just gone . |
| 23 | Confidence is hard to measure , so worries about it are easy to dismiss — but when it goes you can generally tell by counting the dole queues . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is sad that in Britain we have lost most of our old heritage , but when I went to Ireland I was pleased to find that Yeats and others before him had rescued many of the stories and legends that had been in danger of being lost . |
| 26 | I washed my hands and tried to make my peace with her , but when I went to stroke her she hissed at me . |
| 27 | But when I went back to have another look they 'd been changed . |
| 28 | The diary entries for the Easter holidays are even sparser than usual , but when I went back to school I had lost yet another two pounds . |
| 29 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 30 | I jumped out of the car with a polite ‘ Thank you , sir ’ , but when I went in , I kicked our gate shut with a burst of temper . |