Example sentences of "when we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 2 | Just how lucky we were was further highlighted when we learnt that Ricci 's normal teaching rates are £250 for 1 hour . |
| 3 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 5 | ‘ When we led 12-11 we had three free kicks against us which took the momentum out of our play . ’ |
| 6 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 7 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 8 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 10 | But we got brickbats instead of justice when we exposed young mother Lucy Marshall in October last year for dealing in drugs . |
| 11 | Our public are , when we polled them , down the middle , half liking them and half hating them , so on balance we 'd rather not have the buskers . |
| 12 | I had the privilege of being the first Secretary of State for the Environment when we combined the Ministry of Public Works , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Ministry of Transport . |
| 13 | Why were lesbians angered when we questioned the sense of working with gay men in order to counter gay oppression ? |
| 14 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 15 | Since eighty two er , when we merged the two Pearson public companies we have increased Pearson 's earnings per share and dividends four-fold . |
| 16 | When we announced a course of foundation principles for the church , we broke Ephesians down as follows : |
| 17 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 18 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 19 | When we wrote of the new system at the time of its introduction , we did not mention the technical problems . |
| 20 | We have already tried to capture something of this dilemma when we wrote of unskilled workers as follows : |
| 21 | When we wrote the editorial it was true that most , but not all , of the evidence of opportunism had been reported from the United States . |
| 22 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 23 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 24 | ‘ Imagine our anger , and the anger of all lesbians and gays when we heard that the NEC , led by Roy Hattersley , had voted to exclude the commitment for an equal age of consent of 16 for gay men , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Imagine how we felt when we heard talk , on the BBC , of the possible intention to bomb Puerto Madryn ( Welsh : Porth Madryn ) , named after Love Jones Parry of Madryn — which is a small village , some three miles from where I live and am now writing . |
| 26 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 27 | I was with him when we heard that the invasion might start . |
| 28 | I was having tea with A company when we heard a lot of shouting and went to investigate . |
| 29 | When we heard of the decision to construct a new reservoir on the Durham/Northumberland border , Ann and I carefully noted opening day in our diary ; and on the appointed morning we rose at dawn and sallied forth , bustling by ash-covered Consett Iron Works , the light of battle glinting in our trout-starved eyes . |
| 30 | ‘ When we heard that the French were going and the British were coming , we were glad , ’ said another . |