Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 2 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 3 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 4 | He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut . |
| 5 | ‘ And you know the two foresters who live here in the village : they 're fine when they 're at home , but when they go to the village they 're responsible for , in Dolpo , I bet they carry on like all the others do , terrorizing people . |
| 6 | But when they came to the Grove , they stopped and hung back . |
| 7 | Jones and another top Brit Ieuan Ellis have been flown in … the rest of the field has to be recruited … the New York marathon started with only 20 … but when they gather for the pasta party on the eve of the race … 150 have been signed up … 18 nations will be running |
| 8 | But when they got to the bottom of the Grove they were scared a little . |
| 9 | Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 10 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 11 | England are a good team but when they play against the ‘ Big Boys ’ they are also-rans . |
| 12 | But when they moved on the school lost its reason for being . |
| 13 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 14 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |
| 15 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 16 | It looks very substantial on the surface , but when one looks below the surface , one finds nothing of any substance . |
| 17 | But when we walked inside the church , we found five small Palestinian boys standing in a line just where the altar would have been . |
| 18 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 19 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 20 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 21 | There are high concentrations in the top fifteen inches , but when we get below the next layer , the concentrations become very much less and the ratio of the two concentrations does n't change very much . |
| 22 | We 've had a few scares from the lasers so far , but when we get on the scene there 's nothing to see . ’ |
| 23 | But when we turn to the input systems there would seem to be no choice but to use the language of ‘ representations ’ . |
| 24 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 25 | But when we looked at the SVQ in more detail , we found that the underpinning skills and knowledge required would need some extra attention . |
| 26 | I wo n't say anything now , but when we come to the recapitulation you 'll know what I am doing , and we 'll see what you do ’ . |
| 27 | this happens automatically with a 1×1 rib , but when we come to the 2×2 ribs we have to take steps to make it happen . |
| 28 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 29 | It is impossible to describe an organization in behaviour terms ( i.e. processes ) other than momentarily because the processes are always changing ; but when we speak of the processes we freeze that dynamic interaction for a single moment , take a picture , and know that a moment later the picture will be different . |
| 30 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |