Example sentences of "when we [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 2 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |
| 3 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 4 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 5 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 6 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 7 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 8 | Cos we moved to ninety five , was n't built when we moved into a hundred and eleven |
| 9 | Islander was snug in her berth in Hythe Marina when we called on a dull and almost windless day shortly before Christmas last year . |