Example sentences of "when we have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why run away from home when we 've a fascinating country of our own ? |
| 2 | However when we had a crucial area such as the future of Church Relations , decisions seem to have been taken . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong . |
| 6 | That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’ |
| 11 | When we have a complete account of the brain , we are assured , consciousness will be intellectually transparent and the mind will assume its rightful place as just another part of ( physical ) nature , obedient to the laws that hold sway elsewhere in the material universe . |
| 12 | Meetings once again I have to say the old , old chestnut please can we start at eight o' clock er we 're getting new members who get a bit discouraged when we have a late start . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , when we have a traditional music show , that 's all-Irish , they bring the instruments in here . |
| 14 | We are all familiar with the way in which our sense of smell ( and therefore taste , for the two are closely linked ) is impaired when we have a heavy cold . |
| 15 | We must get a balance between commitments and resources , and we 'll only get that when we have a full scale review of Britain 's defence obligations , both present and future . |
| 16 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 17 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 18 | Whereas Polybius ' fortunes can easily be followed , Posidonius ' place in modern thought will be established only when we have a proper study of early ethnography . |
| 19 | As we left he said , ‘ We shall know glasnost has arrived when we have a capitalistic bookshop in the middle of Moscow . ’ |
| 20 | Then when we have a difficult relationship at home or work it 's easier to blame the other person than look at what we did . |