Example sentences of "but when [pron] looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nodded to them , but when they looked at me I turned away quickly , for fear I should see them exchange puzzled glances . |
| 2 | Then they ran and they ran , but when they looked back , Baba Yaga had managed to burst her way out of the oven , and was running after them , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 3 | The voice was just overhead , but when they looked up there was no one there . |
| 4 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 5 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 6 | But when we looked at the SVQ in more detail , we found that the underpinning skills and knowledge required would need some extra attention . |
| 7 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |
| 8 | But when it looked at the boys , Edwardian England was invariably moved . |
| 9 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But when I looked a bit closer , I saw they were advertising gigs that were happening there next week . ’ |
| 13 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But when I looked up , I saw , to my great astonishment , a large island in the sky , between me and the sun . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 18 | But when I looked round , there he was , half-way towards me with the knife in his right hand ! |
| 19 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But when I looked … nothing ! |
| 22 | But when I looked over the edge there was no sign of him , or of the river — only the mist swirling . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | I went there one Sunday , I thought we 'll have a meal but when I looked I said no chance ! |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 . |