Example sentences of "[conj] when we [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Except when we fall in the bath . ’
2 I suspect that when we inquire into the matter , we shall find that the general practitioner had doubts about the treatment 's clinical appropriateness .
3 So that when we get to the mock interview stage , no , no one can actually back out , no one can pretend that they were just sent by their council .
4 Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed .
5 I have no doubt that when we come to the election the electorate will have spotted that as well .
6 And I 'm sure that when we go down the road we can Although i we 're always ready to look at erm car drivers and some of the stupid things they do and some of the stupid things that they do which annoy us , at the end of the day w you 've still got to bear in mind that erm there are people in our own fraternity , as it were , that er do n't do as they should .
7 It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves .
8 For those of you who erm get a little er flustered at the at electrophysiological concepts , let me just erm begin the lecture by erm reminding you that when we talk about the current through a channel , all we 're talking about is a flux .
9 I hope that when we meet on the nineteenth Alan or Paul will immediately knock all that on the head .
10 You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly .
11 This is that when we look at the evolution of cultural traits and at their survival value , we must be clear whose survival we are talking about .
12 And when we went to the market they did n't have any on as I say , Anna went to and got her gladioli .
13 And when we prevailed on the prior to let us raise the stone , this is what we found . ’
14 If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page .
15 That 's for one hundred thousand , that 's for ten thousand , that 's for ten thousand , that 's right , and when we looked at the fifteen years , that 's the for fifteen years , that 's again for twenty five .
16 And when we looked in the camp they 'd taken everything — clothes , food , equipment .
17 Conditions stayed favourable and when we got to the headland of Volunteer Point , the small boat was launched and we were ferried ashore with only the odd wet foot resulting from the landing .
18 We saved them in a big tin , and when we got to the theatre and she opened it up they were all stuck together in a fluffy lump — pear-drops , and fruit-gums and licorice torpedoes and polo mints , with bits of hair and silver paper and bus tickets sticking out .
19 And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great .
20 Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ?
21 We approached the crackling silhouette through floating fields of pumice which rattled against our wooden hull , and when we stepped into the surf to haul our boat on to the beach , as black as the night around us , our bare feet sank into sand too hot for comfort .
22 Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do .
23 But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit .
24 Later a Canadian will tell me : ‘ It was the worst bus journey of my life and when we get to the Cruz del Condor , people start saying , ‘ Go on then , are n't you going to get out ?
25 On the right of the path Halling field is continued and when we get to the Plough there is a building shown behind the inn and this is most certainly the dwelling that gave this field its old name Burnt House field .
26 Whatever happened to she had them for years up there and , and when we cleared out the house I forget what we done with them .
27 Several transports were sent to convey us to the camp , and they were certainly less basic than the RAF ones we were used to , and when we arrived at the aircraft hangar where the jollifications were being held , it was ablaze with coloured lights and swarming with people , and a seven piece band was being very loud on the platform .
28 Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force .
29 ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true .
30 All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village .
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