Example sentences of "when we reached " in BNC.
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| 1 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 2 | Darkness had fallen when we reached the beaches , having travelled over ground in places very familiar . |
| 3 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 4 | When we reached the house , however , he rummaged about in the office for a while complaining that he could never find anything on Dee-Dee 's days off and eventually brought a paper into the dining-room , plonked it on the table and instructed me to sign . |
| 5 | When we reached the street corner where our ways separated I asked him not to tell anyone . |
| 6 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 7 | When we reached our beats , we dropped off the crocodile . |
| 8 | And lastly , when we reached Magdalen Bridge , Dennis insisted on coming alongside so that he could visit an off-licence at the Plain and buy a bottle of champagne , the sale being recorded in his credit card records . |
| 9 | When we reached Dieppe I emptied my kit into another bad and popped Emily into my rucksack . |
| 10 | When we reached this area we found a small stream passing under a bridge marked Puente Chinoluiz . |
| 11 | I carried Rachel , and Margaret held on to me , and I hoped Tim would be hanging on to Mig , but when we reached the small steamer Tim was missing . |
| 12 | When we reached Mandalay it was in flames , Auntie Edie Mann 's hospital from Rangoon had been evacuated to Mandalay , and again it was bombed , so she , clad in a man 's shirt and shorts and tennis shoes , was flown out to Calcutta . |
| 13 | When we reached the door Mum called back , ‘ Good afternoon Captain ’ , as though nothing had happened . |
| 14 | When we reached our yard again I could see that Mrs Taylor and her friends had worked hard . |
| 15 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 16 | When we reached Lower Matecumbe there were bodies floating in the ferry slip . |
| 17 | When we reached the farm the track ran out , so we had a word with the farmer , a friend of Brian 's , and set off over the open fields . |
| 18 | I looked at the empty estate-car when we reached the other side . |
| 19 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |
| 20 | A chill rain was falling steadily when we reached Bakhim Forest Rest House . |
| 21 | ‘ But when we reached St Christoph the clouds were retreating up the mountainsides . |
| 22 | When we reached the start after a nervous descent there were no fewer than seven climbers ahead of us . |
| 23 | When we reached 6000 feet manifold pressure had fallen to around 23 ’ but our true airspeed had increased to around 155 knots at 10–10.5 gallons per hour . |
| 24 | Father had been a champion cyclist in his youth in Wales and saw that we were all given good bicycles when we reached years of discretion . |
| 25 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 26 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 27 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 28 | When we reached our house , the wind was blowing hard in our faces . |
| 29 | But when we reached our bedroom , Miss Scatcherd was checking the drawers . |
| 30 | ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground . |