Example sentences of "[conj] when we [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall say only that when we returned for worship next day the whole building was pristine . |
| 2 | Mahmoud came in again later on and when we asked for books he said that we could have encyclopedias . |
| 3 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 4 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 5 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |