Example sentences of "when [pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 2 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 3 | How did the patients react when they were moved out this week ? |
| 4 | It 's a surprise too that the school has survived , but when they were killing off all the grammar schools in this country and turning them into comprehensives and middle schools and sixth-form colleges and everyone was getting shoved in with everyone else . |
| 5 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |