Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernadette Devlin recalled that in its early stages ‘ the whole thing had a sort of good-natured holiday atmosphere ’ , but when they realised that the police had re-routed the march |
| 2 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 3 | They went into hiding immediately after , but when they heard that a warrant had been issued for their arrest , Waddell told Gentle he was going to give himself up . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |
| 5 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 6 | No but when they say when they say i it 's twenty twenty below , it 's twenty below that zero there , see there 's ten |
| 7 | That 's the thing a man has , only a man 's is bigger : he kisses you , you 've seen people kissing , of course you have , but when they kiss when nobody else is looking , the man puts it inside you . ’ |
| 8 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 9 | The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d . |
| 10 | But when one learns that the whole project involved only two months of actual field research ( July-August 1936 ) , it becomes obvious that , in this case , the success of the enterprise must have been heavily dependent upon Fei 's prior local knowledge . |
| 11 | The extent to which individual disciplines make use of libraries in their researches may be expected to vary , but when one sees that some universities spend 50% to 100% per capita more than others , it does suggest that the value placed by university managers on their libraries varies in some highly individualistic ways . |
| 12 | But when we remember that at least one bishop , Roger , bishop of Salisbury , was a married man , we can judge the likelihood of support in that diocese . |
| 13 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 14 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 15 | But when we realize that the eye is most probably Bleistein 's , we realize that it represents a degeneration from the expected human eye . |
| 16 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 17 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 18 | She rather spoilt him now and again ; but when it showed that he was n't intelligent like Constanza she did n't like it . |
| 19 | But when I suggested that she smile , another young man interrupted to answer for her . |
| 20 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 21 | I , I , I would like to but I have n't thought it seriously enough about it , but when I smelt that I thought |
| 22 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 23 | But when you know that she 's safely tucked up in bed , you come out with a towel around you . |
| 24 | But when you go and lose three on the trot , it does n't look so clever . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was certainly a very fated combination — a destined match , but when you get that it 's a fixed reaction to do with planets and the fixed signs . |
| 26 | Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others . |
| 27 | but when you come and sit here at night |
| 28 | But when you fold and roll it , the whole case slips into its own suede-effect drawstring bag — to measure a mere 21 ’ by 6 ’ by 3 ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I know , ’ Flavia went on , ‘ that people do n't like a divorce in their family , but when you think that his has so long ceased to be a real marriage You have n't seen them together , Michel and … |
| 30 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |