Example sentences of "when we [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were to meet them ourselves , when we followed the professional python-hunters into the burial caverns of Celebes island . |
| 2 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 3 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 4 | Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here |
| 5 | The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve . |