Example sentences of "when we [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since eighty two er , when we merged the two Pearson public companies we have increased Pearson 's earnings per share and dividends four-fold . |
| 2 | Again when we went the last time they said that . |
| 3 | ‘ We were leading the British Open at Lytham when we played the fourth . |
| 4 | Had we been as free from the fetters of manpower planning as Field when we negotiated the new deal the problem could have been solved overnight . |
| 5 | Peter Jenkinson , Head of Walsall 's Museums and Art Galleries commented : ‘ When we launched the first show three years ago , we were amazed at the amount of secret collectors we discovered behind ordinary people 's front doors . |
| 6 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 7 | We were to meet them ourselves , when we followed the professional python-hunters into the burial caverns of Celebes island . |
| 8 | I lay down in my boat , sure that when we reached the rough , open water , that would be the end for me . |
| 9 | I carried Rachel , and Margaret held on to me , and I hoped Tim would be hanging on to Mig , but when we reached the small steamer Tim was missing . |
| 10 | I 'd thought it was Dargaville but when we reached the small town of Warkworth , the name ‘ rang a bell ’ . |
| 11 | When we reached the new target and found gaps in the cloud and bombed , my second pilot just remarked that he was glad we did not bomb Mannheim , and I asked why . |
| 12 | I looked at the empty estate-car when we reached the other side . |
| 13 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 14 | ‘ We only found out when we saw the Daily Mirror , ’ said Craig , who lives with Julie and their three other children in Luton , Beds . |
| 15 | However , it is important for him and the Opposition Front-Bench team to understand that when we replaced the old supplementary benefit scheme we sought to target help on the people who needed it most . |
| 16 | It 's , it 's already once cove covered the whole wall , but when we took the other fence down , the high fence eh , you know , they damaged everything . |
| 17 | It just seemed to go all wrong when we passed the big rock . ’ |
| 18 | He intrigued us and then , when we had the good fortune to meet him socially , he emerged as both a remarkable and idealistic person . |
| 19 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
| 20 | when we bought them , when we had the first lot of springs |
| 21 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 22 | In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience . |
| 23 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
| 24 | Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago . |
| 25 | Well when we had the open day and we had a lot of people round here ! |
| 26 | ‘ We went through the proper channels with our application , ’ he said , ‘ following the pattern that was used when we ran the 125 and 250 World Championships . |
| 27 | I was going to make a song and dance when we got the 100th subscriber , but 98 's near enough . |
| 28 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 29 | Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here |
| 30 | When we got , when we got the next one yes certainly . |