Example sentences of "when we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of this expenditure is realized when we contrast it with the £701,469 these three same denominations spent on ministerial training and the £692,054 spent on home missions . |
| 2 | If all these gorgeous chaps are going to rally to the standard when we stick it in the salt pot , then I , for one , am going to be as fragrant and petal-soft as a lady in a soap commercial . |
| 3 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 4 | When we followed her into the bedroom she ordered us out , saying it was no place for kids . |
| 5 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 6 | She came to for a bit when we brought her into the light , but I had difficulty following what she said . |
| 7 | PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . |
| 8 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's got party tricks like shaking hands , and when we walk him to the shops on a lead he loves being cuddled by children and old people . |
| 10 | When we tell them in the , what we say is that erm that very same person came back as a fox , or you know , that very same person came back as er you know ge goose or whatever animal it might be . |
| 11 | ‘ However , your bravery will do you no good when we take you to the Avenue Foch , where there will be no kind Obersturmfuhrer to hinder our work . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
| 14 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 15 | When we fed them before the winter we gave them proper er fertilizer for things that need acid soil . |
| 16 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 17 | But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily ! |
| 18 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 19 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 20 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |