Example sentences of "when we [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're in a terrible state when we pick them up . |
| 2 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 3 | Often we do n't like them and when we like them least we call them bureaucracies and feel they are malignant , that they interfere with our freedoms , that they are insensitive to our needs . |
| 4 | the only thing in a tent is that , you 've got somewhere to lock your money up , in it ? , your passport and that , although when we went we just left our passports and money in the tent , but I would n't do that now |
| 5 | It will also make it easier when you and I recommend him to take over from Sanders when we pull it back to Detroit . |
| 6 | It does n't hurt because it 's pulled off so quickly , and when we pull it off , we put our finger straight over the area and it takes the sting away . |
| 7 | When we put them up in our house , they make everything look quite different . |
| 8 | came flying out when out i n't it , when we put it in ? |
| 9 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 10 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 11 | then , no Ian had an orange one and when we pedalled it up and down it kept falling off so Katie put a bolt in it , a wee little one and it screwed onto the tractor bit . |
| 12 | I found it clutched in Anna 's hand when we cleaned her up . |
| 13 | Now , when we flush 'em out , I don' want anybody gittin' trigger-happy . |
| 14 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 15 | But wha when I was , you were n't around when we played them then were you ? |
| 16 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 17 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 18 | Today , after a period of five short years , we are a health-conscious nation , exercising careful concern about our guests ' cholesterol levels when we invite them round to supper , looking unconcerned as yet another jogger pounds us into the pavement as we take a stroll , and reacting with sheer open-eyed shock at the sight of a plate of bacon , eggs and bangers as we spoon down our own regular morning bran cereal — or dish of F-Pan Fibre-Filler . |
| 19 | One detective who works in the area said : ‘ We are working very long hours tracking these people but when we bring them in , legal impediment after legal impediment is thrown up in our faces . |
| 20 | Our mourning can only be taken up into joy when we bring it back to Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention . |
| 22 | We went sailing and swimming , and once we went out at night with the fishing-boats ; we ate every meal together , and lay prone on the stone piers , reaching shoulder-deep into the water to catch the scarlet starfish , which petrified with fury when we lifted them out . |
| 23 | When we brought him here , we put him under an anaesthetic and then cut the wire down here . ’ |
| 24 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 25 | it were n't too bad when we took it , it would play but there were n't even , when we brought it back |
| 26 | And when we brought it home it would n't go . |
| 27 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 28 | Chamberlain and I were inclined to be impatient when we saw him so reluctant to take the only course which seemed to us possible . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been restless since that day at the docks , when we saw him off . ’ |
| 30 | Sarah seemed quiet and upset when we saw him off anyway . ’ |