Example sentences of "when we [vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize .
2 When we heard of them last they were cutting down trees for them to feed upon which is very generally adopted .
3 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 .
4 Which er , which we all , who went to the , the particular er , er occasion when we went past it on our way from the church to the reception we saw it going on .
5 but then when we went into it they said erm obviously look at the development plans and it would go ahead eventually for something there , they did n't state what .
6 When we went into his room , God was lying on his bed listening to music on the radio .
7 when we went to them horses ?
8 Yes er although let me say this , that er there were many things which the management were required to do , for example , when we , when we went to our monthly meetings with them , we established monthly meetings with the management , one , in order to try and control from our side , er the , to have some control on the production er side of things .
9 And when that 's right , but when , when we went on our clothes buying jaunt , we could go back to the car
10 In the second half when we went at them we forced plenty of corners but could make nothing of them .
11 ‘ She was tired and sleepy but soon woke up when we came to her side .
12 When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour .
13 Though when we came on their car , somewhere on the long , dirt road to Tinerhir , there was no time for surprise .
14 When we returned to our gentrified cow-flop that afternoon everything seemed tawdry , vulgar and second-rate .
15 ‘ We failed , ’ Steve said to Kees when we returned to our base at Shokumshun .
16 When we returned to our own chamber , I turned drunkenly on Benjamin .
17 ‘ Though , since Prague has reared its head again , perhaps I should explain that , when we returned to our hotel after dinner last night , with my feelings for you seeming to be on an agitated boil , I had to invent having someone to see . ’
18 When we returned from our honeymoon , feeling bronzed and glowing , a drinks party was held so that all the rest of the family and our friends might share in our celebration .
19 When we played at his club in Westwood and I beat him comfortably , he discussed the result with his friends in such a way that it was clear that he had deliberately thrown the match in order to contribute to our personal relationship .
20 Oh yeah , cos when we lived at you see you could just go to sleep and that 's it you knew that nowt was gon na happen .
21 Turned left when we felt like it , found ourselves somewhere near Compiègne .
22 then when we checked into it
23 When ours were , it was a right state when we looked at ours , but we still said we 'd have it .
24 I remembered how my wife had held the girls in her arms , and how she had smiled at me when we looked at them .
25 On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive .
26 Yeah but erm that that when the when we listened to it when we 're doing prayer
27 ‘ Clyst St George did n't look very inviting , when we passed through it this afternoon . ’
28 For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump .
29 Yet , surprisingly , when we asked for something else they obliged with a number of better films .
30 He was unconscious when we got to him . ’
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