Example sentences of "when we [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 2 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 4 | That is what will happen when we get what the hon. Gentleman describes as the raw data . |
| 5 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |