Example sentences of "but when they 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 . |