Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | with me , you play the rule , but when they came in and they said all this |
| 2 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 3 | ‘ We also enquired about painting the LP sleeve on the side of the plane , but when we found out that it would cost another two and a half grand for the paint job we drew the line . ’ |
| 4 | ( The meeting started in a vegetarian restaurant but when it turned out that the table was already booked , we carried on outside , in a freezing wind . |
| 5 | But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | But when I look back when I think about it it probably ke kept us out of mischief you know . |
| 8 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 9 | But when you cast on and knit the sleeve , you find that when the work is removed from the machine , the stitches ‘ shrink ’ and in so doing , the depth of the armhole decreases . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | But when he looked down and met his daughter 's eyes , the certainty there disturbed him . |
| 12 | When he lowered Grainne on to the pile of thick fur rugs before the fire , he was trembling , but when he stood up and began to unfasten his own clothes , he did so with a calm sureness and a gentle authority . |
| 13 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 14 | But when she got back and dialled Alix 's number , Alix was out . |