Example sentences of "when we [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 2 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 3 | If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report . |
| 4 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 6 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 7 | I mean once or twice when we unload it the beer barrel break and when they , be surprised you 'd never get it back together again . |