Example sentences of "but when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You complain about your friends never coming to see you , but when they do come , you give them such a hard time it 's hardly surprising they stay away . |
| 2 | They even tried next door , but when they discovered our neighbours do n't use cocopeat , they came straight back again ! |
| 3 | But when they met , dinner at home , dinner out , dinner at Dionne 's , they had taken to sleeping together , sometimes just that , warmth in Dionne 's huge silky bed or hers , and sometimes a deep and wonderful sexual fusion , neither planned nor yearned after . |
| 4 | He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut . |
| 5 | If people want to kill themselves , that 's their affair , but when they come here I want to give them food which will do them food rather than harm . |
| 6 | Most of us appreciate the beauty that birds can bring to the garden , but when they spoil our fruit and vegetables they become less desirable garden visitors . |
| 7 | Because of the Farm 's history , they used the occasion to mount a show of force , and to do so at 5pm , when children playing on the estate would be terrified by the raid , but when they could be sure of a good spot on the Six O'Clock News . |
| 8 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 9 | The muddle that these two uses of the word cause is in part Marx 's and Engels 's fault because when they are talking about society based on communal property , that is , before false consciousness arises , they mean by ideology the total process of cognition including language , political ideas , social rules , etc. , but when they are talking of class society where false consciousness is present they seem to mean by ideology something much more restricted : moral , political , and religious ideas and values . |
| 10 | You have free access to the family outside their house , but when they are inside you can investigate them only by looking through the windows of their house . |
| 11 | But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression . |
| 12 | But when they are scalping , they are working in the public interest . |
| 13 | But when they get a little older , they will cover their bodies up and the boy shall never again see his sisters ' beauty . |
| 14 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 15 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 16 | But when they came to lift the body , there was this bird 's head . |
| 17 | His parents kept it spick and span , but when they died , he lived there alone until it went to rack and ruin . |
| 18 | Zuwaya asserted in political discussion that no man was better than another ( a principle used in argument , rather than as a guide to action ) ; but when they spoke about distributive justice they put little emphasis on economic egalitarianism . |
| 19 | If they were good , you would say it 's good for our art-form , but when they 're not and they take our money , that makes me mad . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But when they do see them , their reaction is always the same . |
| 21 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 22 | On the submarine they give us film badges to wear , but when they turn black they just give you new badges . |
| 23 | But when they reached the implementation stage , in which their orientation was to concrete tasks and the skills required of them were chiefly technical , then they became more directive and used client participation less . |
| 24 | But when they die they sink to the bottom , taking the nutrients with them . |
| 25 | They had been so close at their boarding school ; but when they left , five years ago , they had drifted apart . |
| 26 | Bernadette Devlin recalled that in its early stages ‘ the whole thing had a sort of good-natured holiday atmosphere ’ , but when they realised that the police had re-routed the march |
| 27 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 28 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 29 | The aim was to toss bombs into them as they drove past , but when they got there they discovered that the sentries were being changed . |
| 30 | First , they do n't occur often during the life of the volcano , but when they do , they may continue intermittently for several months . |