Example sentences of "but when you [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people say generally that ‘ there should be no whaling for ethical reasons ’ , but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics , you find it exceedingly difficult and , I am afraid to say , probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world . |
| 2 | You could understand the connection made between hair and being manly but when you came to think of it , it was n't really true . |
| 3 | That it , it 's true , it 's absolutely , but when you managed to swallow a few bot you know , a few of them , you know , you know it 's alright then . |
| 4 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 5 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 6 | He said , like coming to this well for your jug of water every day it 's alright while i , the jug , there 's some in the jug , but when you 've drunk it all the jug 's empty and it does n't do a thing for you ! |
| 7 | PICCADILLY CIRCUS It may be wise to keep your eyes on the traffic , but when you 've reached the island , look up to the Spectacolor board above the corner of Haymarket and Coventry Street . |
| 8 | But when you 've handled a number of homicide cases you learn to recognize a pattern . |
| 9 | Cute enough , but when you 've seen one clip of Morrissey wriggling like an over-the-hill belly dancer as Marr glares sourly at the baffled provincial audience , you 've seen them all . |
| 10 | It 's so straight and so sharp that it works perfectly as a blade , but when you 've finished you can just grind it up into the ground . ’ |
| 11 | They can train , there 's plenty training , but when you 've finished your training there 's nowhere |
| 12 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 13 | in simply why not and simply hoping that someone 's gon na go out and buy your brand of petrol for example erm I think for me it 's erm there are so many messages flashed at people every day erm do this , do that , buy our product instead of X and X's product but when you 've paid , when you 're faced with that purchase decision , and I , I would say perhaps this is true for most people from most jargon . |
| 14 | ( I suppose RE lessons would be the only exception to this rule , but when you 've got an RE teacher that does n't believe in the existence of God and thinks that Jesus was an astronaut there 's a limit to how ‘ Christian ’ Religious Education really can be ! ) |
| 15 | You think you want it , but when you 've got it , the goalposts shift . |
| 16 | We were in bed — probably the worst place , but when you 've got three kids it 's the only place you can talk . |
| 17 | But when you 've got other moving vehicles around and things which could happen , eighty three miles an hour is far too bloody fast is n't it ? |
| 18 | But when you 've got four or five or six children in a house you know with two bedrooms . |
| 19 | Now suppleness is the most important , but when you 've got that you have to go for something else before you even can grow the stamina , and that is strength , the power of the muscle to produce the body action , resist gravity and work against resistance . |
| 20 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |
| 21 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 22 | It 's great fun using a calculator when it 's a new toy but when you 've got to use it every time you need to work something out , |
| 23 | But when you 've got something else that 's hard . |
| 24 | I , I did , and then of course as I say er , you know , with my husband , well I had lovely holidays before but when you 've got a companion it 's all too different is n't it ? |
| 25 | Now , this may sound also , but when you 've got to pay five hundred pounds out a year , and you 've got to fund raise and do it , often for young families this is a consideration . |
| 26 | But when you 've got forty three , they 'll just taking ground anywhere . |
| 27 | But when you 've got people stood behind a desk and serving you and doing nothing but serving you as you come . |
| 28 | Er yeah , but when you 've got a big pile of papers your judgement gets impaired after you 've you 've er |
| 29 | boring , but when you 've got that experience of , you 've seen these things occur |
| 30 | But when you 've got a full field to harvest at least you 're getting something but when you 're just going around the edges and picking the bits that are left behind that is a hard job you 're spending as long but you 're not getting as much . |