Example sentences of "but when i look " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 2 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 3 | A tourist probably dropped it , I thought , but when I looked closer there were more of them , far too many to have been left by a traveller . |
| 4 | But when I looked a bit closer , I saw they were advertising gigs that were happening there next week . ’ |
| 5 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |
| 6 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 7 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 8 | But when I looked up , I saw , to my great astonishment , a large island in the sky , between me and the sun . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 10 | But when I looked round , there he was , half-way towards me with the knife in his right hand ! |
| 11 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 12 | I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble . |
| 13 | But when I looked … nothing ! |
| 14 | But when I looked over the edge there was no sign of him , or of the river — only the mist swirling . |
| 15 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 16 | But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’ |
| 17 | Good progress was made on the Saturday but when I looked at what still remained for Sunday , I thought we 'd do well to finish half the distance . |
| 18 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 19 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 20 | I went there one Sunday , I thought we 'll have a meal but when I looked I said no chance ! |
| 21 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 22 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 23 | I imagine he is impressed and that he will invite us for a coffee after , but when I look again he is gone . |
| 24 | But when I look back , I think it 's this path that 's been ploughed for me . |
| 25 | This sounds logical , but when I look at the Sega or Nintendo where there 's no piracy , you still have to pay a fortune for one single game . |
| 26 | But when I look ahead up the white road |
| 27 | I wrote a lot about gay politics during the seventies , including a book on it , but when I look back on it , I do n't actually talk about sex at all . |
| 28 | But when I look at what I 've written , I feel it 's not all there . |
| 29 | But when I look back when I think about it it probably ke kept us out of mischief you know . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought I no longer felt anything for you , but when I look into your eyes … |