Example sentences of "but [conj] he reached the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 2 | He seemed about to leave — walked to the door , in any case — but when he reached the foot of the bed , he took hold of the brass upright and pulled the bed out into the room ; then he carried a second ladderback chair to the head of the bed and sat down behind Annie . |
| 3 | But when he reached the Club she was there already . |
| 4 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 5 | The view ahead was obscured by a section of partially completed walling at the east end , but when he reached the comer Zen fount that the only unpredictable feature of the landscape was a river which cut across the track about a hundred metres further on . |
| 6 | A firemen climbed an extension ladder and edged along the wall but when he reached the scene the yellow-topped fledgeling flew away . |
| 7 | His parachute opened , but as he reached the ground a 25 m.p.h. wind pulled him over backwards and he was knocked out . |
| 8 | As the promised rain swept in from the sea Penry had climbed the cliff path from Lee Haven with his bundle of driftwood , but as he reached the Neck a small patch of bright colour had caught his eye far below . |