Example sentences of "but when i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I wrote it , nobody had realized anywhere in the world how unbelievably expensive it is to make an agreeable modern city , from managing traffic and removing rubbish to providing better education , housing and transport . |
| 2 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 4 | But when I played it I thought that in some of the climaxes the original twenty-three strings were too few to make a full effect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I met the Association of British Insurers about six months ago , it was reluctant to take a collective view , but when I met it about two months ago , its views had changed considerably , because the claims paid by insurers rose by 46 per cent . |
| 7 | But when I missed it last year because of the Euro-Asia match I was severely criticised by the chairman . ’ |
| 8 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 9 | Well erm eight hundred but when I did it wrote it into normal terms like six point sixty four with one two three four noughts |
| 10 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 12 | I du n no if it 's because it 's melted a bit but when I tried it before |
| 13 | So , but when I tried it it |
| 14 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 15 | ‘ But when I mentioned it to Ross , during the flight from America , he was dead against the idea . |
| 16 | Well I know the the when we had the er I T V , you know , over Christmas it said in there it was on Central but when I turned it on it was n't at all . |
| 17 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 18 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 19 | I had all these thoughts in my head but when I spoke it was just noise , just high-pitched noises came out . |