Example sentences of "[adv] when we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean basically when we look at the range of council services , then you have to take decisions about the balance of spending between different priorities . |
| 2 | One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena . |
| 3 | Only when we get to the seventh paragraph of the story do we hear Benn 's statement to the court , which claims that the PC said : ‘ You black bastard , this will teach you to mess about with the police . ’ |
| 4 | Birds , fish and invertebrates provide some fascinating instances of the use of tools , but it is only when we come to the mammals , and particularly the primates , that tool using begins to approach anything like its full potential . |
| 5 | Our steppe will truly become ours only when we come with columns of tractors and ploughs to break the thousand-year old virgin soil . |
| 6 | The relative position of girls and boys becomes sharply divided only when we look at two factors behind the generalized statistics : ( 1 ) subject choices ; ( 2 ) post-school experiences . |
| 7 | The sun was going down when we sailed into the port , and the doctor and Mr Trelawney took me on shore . |
| 8 | It does n't , it 's not too bad there like , especially when we went to , you know it 's not there 's no . |
| 9 | Sometimes it is just a matter of taking a message ; at others ( especially when we lived near a place that gave over-night accommodation to tramps ) it has involved talking — or more often listening — to them . |
| 10 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 11 | We all found him interesting , so when we lay in the sun after lunch , the white gravel covering our backs with powdery marks , his fighting demonstrations were keenly attended . |
| 12 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 13 | And so when we came to the negotiation process so to say , it was a stalemate . |
| 14 | So when we walked from the pool to the car I felt the whole impact of the sun . |
| 15 | So when we come up the lane it was on the top here and er Sally 's dad was with it and then er the engine was still going so this girl , well erm one of them wenches |
| 16 | So when we come across one that has reached its sixth , we must sit up , take notice and ask why market forces have singled it out for special success . |
| 17 | So when we get on the phone we always talk about full page . |
| 18 | So when we went through it , Kevin was going to do all of the careers officers in York but did n't need to do Mary because she 's part of the adult team and therefore Jane and Julie will have to sort her . |
| 19 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 20 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 21 | So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us . |
| 22 | So when we talk of galaxies , do we have to think of forces , and not curved space ? ’ |
| 23 | In When We Went to the Zoo by Jan Ormerod ( Walker Books , £7.99 ) , a dad decides to take his small son and daughter to the zoo , where they see all sorts of wonderful animals . |
| 24 | Er she 'd sat up er obviously when we moved into the bedroom and from there I 'm not exactly sure what she was doing , in as much as she was n't a threat so therefore perhaps I I did n't pay that much attention to what she was doing . |
| 25 | Thus when we refer to stylistic variation , we are concerned with the three coding levels , and when we refer to stylistic value , we are concerned with the three functions . |
| 26 | or to Jesus and to confuse their language that they may not listen to one another 's language and accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth so , and that was God 's purpose for them to be er spread out all over the earth cos God knew that city life would only break down and all these centuries have passed since then and there 's urgent proof throughout the year , the cities , the cities do n't work so God had his own way , give it , the one , his way is the only one that works and thus when we pray for this king of |
| 27 | And erm they were determined that we should all work near as proficient in milking to go and take over , so we had to learn to hand milk , to use three different types of milking machines and to do all the necessary sterilizing and everything else , so that we could be used straight away when we got to the farm . |
| 28 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 29 | you see , so er anyway when we got off the phone Mike said yeah but what about bloody power you see |
| 30 | His sang-froid comes so naturally that , when death seems imminent , he remarks : ‘ It seems too bad that just when we get to where there 's a fortune in diamonds , the mountain should decide to sit down on it . ’ |