Example sentences of "when we [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we receive a linguistic message , we pay attention to many other factors apart from the language itself . |
| 2 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 3 | I remember on one such occasion in early 1920 , my sister Gladys and I were upstairs in the top back room , looking out of the window , when we heard a terrifying scream . |
| 4 | We were about to leave for our unknown destination when we heard a well-known voice shouting ‘ Wait ! ’ in German . |
| 5 | How much more quickly does my hon. Friend think that we might achieve a balance between exports and imports when we introduce a minimum wage , increase taxes on investment , increase personal taxes and allow the trade unions to ride rough shod once again ? |
| 6 | Why run away from home when we 've a fascinating country of our own ? |
| 7 | When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives . |
| 8 | We found nothing very remarkable when we tested a similar product on an earlier occasion , but we 'll test Chemi-Zorb long term and report back . |
| 9 | Our first minor disagreement of this kind came when we met a large puddle on a woodland track and Skipper decided he could n't possibly get his feet wet . |
| 10 | However when we had a crucial area such as the future of Church Relations , decisions seem to have been taken . |
| 11 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 12 | The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully . |
| 13 | ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong . |
| 14 | That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw . |
| 15 | Yes oh yes er er when we had a wee baker 's van coming up from the Nedd to Lochassynt when when Lochassynt Lodge you see . |
| 16 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 17 | If he had done a little more research and had seen the evidence that I gave to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee in 1987 , he would have seen then — when we had a fiscal surplus of many billions — that I indicated that it would be right , in a downturn , to borrow money in a recession . |
| 18 | Does the Minister acknowledge that when we had a domestic rating system almost every citizen in the land made sure that he or she registered to vote ? |
| 19 | Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , when we hold a Conservative party function in Thanet , South , it is not one of those black-tie , celebrity-packed £500-a-plate dinners at the Park Lane hotel which the Labour party holds . |
| 21 | When we getting a new car ? |
| 22 | I think we had something like eight and a half months without rain and there 's the feeling , quite often , that when we get a good summer in this country , people assume that the next summer will be just as good . |
| 23 | Is it possible when we get a new member of , that , not that they 're brought round , which I think must be frightfully intimidating , but that we are told , and therefore we can drop in and say , hello , I 'm so and so , just to say hello . |
| 24 | Anyhow , I 'll ask him when we get a new quote . |
| 25 | A FUNNY GAME ‘ WHEN we got a 12-horsepower roller I assumed we were getting a horse as well ’ |
| 26 | The absence of lamellipodia tallies with another observation : when we grafted a small patch of embryonic skin onto a denuded region of the limb bud surface , we found that the grafted epidermis , far from expanding over the adjacent vacant territory , actually retracted , leaving its own mesenchyme exposed . |
| 27 | Our efforts last year were completed when we made a major presentation to the fund at a prize-giving in October . |
| 28 | We should all be exercising , even when we do it badly , even when we cut a ridiculous figure as we job along , puffing and panting . |
| 29 | This may be from chronic stress , where our stress tap drips constantly a small amount at a time for months or years , or from sudden stress , when we encounter a specific fear , problem or major life event , which causes the stress tap to turn full on . |
| 30 | The problems raised by this gregarious tendency , and particularly by the recurrence of paired contrasting symbols , become very evident when we consider a bodily product which receives symbolic attention in most human societies and provides extremely expressive symbolic material — hair . |