Example sentences of "but when he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
2 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
3 | But when he had gone , for the first time a feeling of anger rose in her against her husband . |
4 | He moved fast and confidently , but when he had gone only three hundred yards he began to feel breathless , long before he should have done , and realised what that one shot might have done . |
5 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
6 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
7 | He told how Stephen began draining petrol from the car , but when he had filled two plastic bowls petrol was still flowing . |
8 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
9 | But when he had recovered sufficiently he wanted to resume work as possible on his play . |
10 | But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage . |
11 | But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company . |
12 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
13 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
14 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
15 | But wha but when he 'd said , turned round and said , oh it 's a legal contract ! |
16 | There was a security booth at the gate and-a drop-down barrier , but when he 'd arrived the booth had been empty and the barrier had been up . |
17 | Dad was a jolly chap sober , or could be , but when he 'd had a few he thought himself a bit of a lady-killer . |
18 | Colin Jelf says it was difficult at first but when he 'd passed his brother it was relativelty straightforward . |
19 | But when he has gone I buy another whisky , and sit there musing on being a crunched-up spring . |
20 | He tried to come back too soon and made things worse but when he has played he 's looked bang in form . |
21 | But when he 's put the pallets in the centre of the beam one either side , he 's hit the racking beam and it 's dented . |
22 | Well he has n't got any money , but when he 's had it he 's paid on the dot the only one |