Example sentences of "but when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 2 | But when they reached the implementation stage , in which their orientation was to concrete tasks and the skills required of them were chiefly technical , then they became more directive and used client participation less . |
| 3 | But when they reached the Grove , Carrie felt a little less bold . |
| 4 | But when they reached the railway line and Mister Johnny set the goose down and said , ‘ Gurlyi , gurlyi , ’ she knew what he was trying to say . |
| 5 | But when they reached the drawing room , the only people there were Mrs Denham and Martin , and the baby , which was sitting in a high chair . |
| 6 | But when they reached the embankment , Preston had second thoughts . |
| 7 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 8 | But when they reached his room Leonora wriggled out of his arms and stood on the bedside rug , hands behind her back , guilt flooding her now in full force at the look in his eyes . |
| 9 | But when they met , dinner at home , dinner out , dinner at Dionne 's , they had taken to sleeping together , sometimes just that , warmth in Dionne 's huge silky bed or hers , and sometimes a deep and wonderful sexual fusion , neither planned nor yearned after . |
| 10 | But when they met John was besotted with somebody else , and when that finished they were already close friends . |
| 11 | But when they take their first flight into the outside world , their losses begin . |
| 12 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 13 | BRITAIN 'S MINERS DO vital job in gruelling conditions but when they went on strike they sacrificed all their earnings and were attacked by the police . |
| 14 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 15 | Sometimes she was afraid that animals might take them , but when they went noisily along the path she still hoped that one day the man would be waiting there for them , beside the pile of stones . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Below the transparent epicuticle of the elytra is a very thin spongy layer ; when its interstices are filled with air this appears yellow , but when they fill with water the black colour of the underlying cuticle becomes apparent . |
| 18 | But when they spotted police along Haughton Road they sped off along Hundens Lane and raced through Brunel Way , a residential estate for pensioners . |
| 19 | His parents kept it spick and span , but when they died , he lived there alone until it went to rack and ruin . |
| 20 | And one does n't expect thanks , of course , but when they use the handout — and then turn round and start blaspheming , you really do want to chuck the whole business up , and go and become a monk , or something . ’ |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | But when they win , everything 's rosy . ’ |
| 23 | They were both crying now and holding each other tightly , but when they flopped down on to the couch their tears turned to laughter and Victoria , wiping her face , said , ‘ Do you know something , girl ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 26 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 27 | A particularly striking difference was that when the staff addressed the men , it was by surnames , but when they addressed the women , it was by their first names . |
| 28 | But when they die they sink to the bottom , taking the nutrients with them . |
| 29 | You can go to museums and see the work of old craftsmen , but when they die , that 's it . |
| 30 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |