Example sentences of "but when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 2 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 3 | In opposition the Conservatives had , it is true , pressed for a select committee , but when they returned to power the Commons committee they established was quite ineffective . |
| 4 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 5 | But when they had gone she turned and said , If I was going to die tomorrow I should be mad . |
| 6 | But when they began to take an interpretive attitude toward their conventional practices , the situation became much more complicated . |
| 7 | But when they began to steal away from their tasks to sit beside her and smoke their pipes , Grainne felt more honoured than at any time since she had occupied Ireland 's Throne . |
| 8 | But when they came to lift the body , there was this bird 's head . |
| 9 | But when they came to drink they found the water had changed to wine . |
| 10 | but when they came to put into the new concrete support cradles , they found on average there was 30 feet of peat on top of the bedrock , so it could easily have been done . |
| 11 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 12 | I took Tim to the match one Easter Monday they played Luton in league match , and Ted played , the old Ipswich player , and we go absolutely , it rained , hailed , blew , and we got home soaked to the skin you know , and er it seems to make you feel better if they win you know , but if you sort of put up with those sort of things and they , they lose it 's makes you feel right down in the dumps , but when they get promoted like they did last time it 's remarkable , it 's been remarked about this aspect , that people in local industry seem to work harder , and it seems to be a boost in general local traders make shop window displays and it seems to be a boost to the town in general and give a lift to the town if you like |
| 13 | Sudbury had the advantage of the wind in the first half , but when they did press forward failed to unsettled Cornard 's well-knitted defensive combination . |
| 14 | To the grown man visionary experiences come infrequently , but when they do appear the effect is profound , as in ‘ the Blind Beggar ’ episode ; caught in the maelstrom of London , the poet is admonished as if from another world' ( see page 64 ) . |
| 15 | Such cases will be rare , but when they do arise , as was the case with Miss T. , the courts can and will provide immediate assistance . |
| 16 | But when they do arise , police and military planners are caught on the horns of a dangerous dilemma : do they smash in quickly and run the risk of death or injury ? |
| 17 | It does n't make them more adventurous but when they do climb you can see them looking for footholds . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's clear they come one every so often , as the one from Germany , but when they do come , they 're very worthwhile , it justifies our effort . |
| 20 | ‘ But when they do see them , their reaction is always the same . |
| 21 | But when they arrived to start pulling down the George hotel at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , they were confronted by two hundred angry protesters . |
| 22 | But when they started to use a different supplier , he threatened them . |
| 23 | But when they started to tell her that customers preferred some synthetic mix materials ( they creased less , washed better and were cheaper ) she considered such input was dangerously overstepping their authority . |
| 24 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 25 | But when they tried to call their ambulance depot at Mayfield , the radio reception was so poor one of the men had to dash to a phone box . |
| 26 | But when they tried to leave Nepal , officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas , bought in good faith . |
| 27 | They were successful in taking it as far as the stairs , but when they tried to bring it down it slipped , nearly killing one of them . |
| 28 | But when they tried to disarm the other with spray foam , it went off and police and dogs were called out . |
| 29 | But when they have reached this size , they start to travel downstream . |
| 30 | The long stake is ridiculed by the theory merchants , and no doubt will be so again , but when they have had the practical experience , as I have , of losing hundreds of trees through their necks breaking under the weight of an Easter snowstorm , they will learn the commonsense of long staking . |