Example sentences of "but when he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he went to pick it up he was horrified to discover it was one of Isaac 's geese . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yesterday seemed like a bad dream , but when he went downstairs , he saw the covered picture . |
| 4 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |
| 5 | Schellenberg frequently did , but when he went to the window and saw the powdering of snow in the streets he laughed . |
| 6 | The cafe was called Mary 's Pantry , blacked out , but when he went in the place was bright with Christmas decorations and holly . |
| 7 | His father happened to be passing , shortly after the attack , but when he went to help , he did n't recognise his own son . |
| 8 | Twenty-seven for three overnight — Bill Athey spent the morning trying to hit Gloucestershire out of trouble … but when he went on forty-two — trapped lbw by Lampitt — Worcestershire 's first innings total of two hundred and seventy was still looking way out of reach . |
| 9 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 10 | But when he went to Holland , his bill was twelve thousand pounds owing to him , . |
| 11 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 12 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
| 13 | He was not precisely sure what a pleached walk was , but when he came upon it there was no mistaking it and , smiling to himself , he descended a flagged step and passed into a green tunnel . |
| 14 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 15 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 16 | And there 's insecurity as well : Ashley may go moshing down the front at Gallon Drunk gigs , but when he came face-to-face with James Johnson recently , the drummer was ‘ too scared ’ to talk to him . |
| 17 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 18 | But when he came into the picture it had been cast and the script had been done , and he did bring about a lot of changes . |
| 19 | She wondered if she should confess to Connor what she had tried — and failed — to do , but when he came into the bedroom at last , she felt at once that this was not the right moment . |
| 20 | And er I I think they they were , most of them went to jail and I think did , but when he came down here he , he beat . |
| 21 | I could n't stop him reforming , but when he came together all the polish was gone off . |
| 22 | But when he came down he was different , |
| 23 | But when he came along to tell her it was dinnertime he persuaded her to come down . |
| 24 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 25 | The injured man fainted but when he came round he managed to dislodge his hand from the fence and made his way home with the blade still stuck in the wound . |
| 26 | Cos we had Linekars , course they 've gone out of business , but when he came , when the boss came to this one he reckoned one of these was a bit out did n't he ? |
| 27 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 28 | but when he came , he came back |
| 29 | but when he came home then he |
| 30 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |