Example sentences of "when we " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 2 | At midday , when we shut the shop for lunch , and I drove through the streets , it was only the river , glittering in the hard light , that seemed alive . |
| 3 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 4 | This , he suggests , is a time when we have witnessed the ending of the construct of what he calls , ‘ the homogeneity of man ’ which was a product of a special political climate that has now passed . |
| 5 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 6 | 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' . |
| 7 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 8 | Some of us remember all too well what happened in the 1920s and 1930s when we allowed our hopes for a peaceful world to outrun our judgements on the need for defence . |
| 9 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 10 | You remember ‘ Egg and chips twice , ’ the Biblethumper who used to come into that little café with his girlfriend every evening when we were in billets on the South Coast ? |
| 11 | It was dusk and we would be out all night , returning at dawn next morning when we would be relieved by another patrol . |
| 12 | We shall come across this concern again in 1922 when we travel through the much stronger industrial nexus of Kharkov . |
| 13 | In fact this was not so right from the start , even at the sophisticated intellectual heights of Petrograd , as will be seen when we approach that city . |
| 14 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 15 | The Key words in this are ‘ by charitable means ’ and we acknowledged this recently when we appealed for funds for Dowding House under the theme ‘ We honour the dead by helping those who live ’ . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ Although the medal has only recently been created , it was a proud and memorable day when we went to the Polish Embassy in London to receive it . ’ |
| 17 | It was in April when we arrived and I was invited to join branch members in the Anzac Day Parade in Adelaide . |
| 18 | At the hour when we are |
| 19 | It is dusk when we arrive . |
| 20 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 21 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 22 | Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide . |
| 23 | I ask nobody to work seven days a week or twelve hours a day , except in very limited periods when we all have to . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you remember when we used to go with Daddy in the boat on Saturdays ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We have visited Hawkesbury Junction twice now , once in November when we caught 256 zander and in December we removed just 14 . |
| 26 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 27 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 28 | Later in the year , when we visit the area again , we heard that the Swedish Lapps had fenced off an area of the Dividal National Park , with over five kilometres of wire . |
| 29 | There was almost no time of day when we could be together alone . |
| 30 | For us it was when we finally got a period that we learned about it . |