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

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1 The importance of this expenditure is realized when we contrast it with the £701,469 these three same denominations spent on ministerial training and the £692,054 spent on home missions .
2 If all these gorgeous chaps are going to rally to the standard when we stick it in the salt pot , then I , for one , am going to be as fragrant and petal-soft as a lady in a soap commercial .
3 But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison .
4 But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily !
5 They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December .
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