Example sentences of "when we [vb base] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
| 7 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 8 | But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily ! |
| 9 | 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 . " |