Example sentences of "we [verb] when we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd heard , but where is the quarterdeck , and how will we know when we 're on it ? ’ |
| 2 | However , there is a debit side as well : how do we know when we have reached the limits of predictability and ‘ bottomed out ’ on the residuum of free choice ? |
| 3 | This chain theory collapsed partly through its own incoherence under pressure — how do we know when we have got all the links ? — and partly because of the discovery of past faunas . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes we have to watch what we say when we go home because we do so many interesting things now that it would seem like we were boasting . |
| 5 | Florentin Popescu 's poem , ‘ In Simple Words ’ , expressed the whole people 's love for the ‘ woman as scholar ’ whose ‘ name we say when we use simple words : water , sun and bread ’ . |
| 6 | It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do . |
| 7 | What aspects of the Spirit 's work do we see when we explore the image of fire ? |
| 8 | There was and is no legal definition of privacy ; indeed there is no general agreement about what it is — like happiness we can not define it but recognise it when we have it , or more often we know when we feel we do not have it . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's taken us five years to get this far and by now we know when we 've had enough of each other and when to get out of the van and go and sit somewhere quiet to cool off , ’ says Craig . |
| 10 | But we know when we have ‘ got it ’ , and when we have got it we believe it and can work to it . |
| 11 | Well we know when we 're gon na do it do n't we ? |
| 12 | He asks in one of his papers , ‘ The Place Where We Live ’ : ‘ What are we doing when we listen to a Beethoven symphony or when a child is playing ? ’ |
| 13 | These are the astonished questions we ask when we first read the poem . |
| 14 | So what do you suggest we do when we 're not making love or asleep ? |
| 15 | To force increased employment costs on such firms , as we do when we add all that baggage to employees , is likely to drive them nearer to the margin , nearer to closing down . |
| 16 | In everyday speech , we do not pronounce words as clearly as we do when we are asked to say them in isolation . |
| 17 | The consummate silliness of Beerbohm 's sneer , quite apart from showing just how brittle and thin was that famous ‘ wit ’ of his , has alas a representative significance also , as we see when we put beside it Maurice Bowra , another famous ‘ wit ’ , saying of Pound that he was , not just a bore , but an American bore' . |
| 18 | As we see when we examine the Spycatcher cases , in the area of civil liberties the courts seem to have come to regard themselves as the partners of the executive , tackling difficult problems together , rather than as a separate , autonomous , and sometimes necessarily antagonistic branch of government . |
| 19 | We see when we 're introducing negotiation . |
| 20 | yes , but when we see when we have |