Example sentences of "when we [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price . |
| 2 | Well , when we went to a erm , they phoned , we wen , the woman , we said , ah , with the Rising Sun 'll be , do you think the Rising Sun will be full as well , 'cos she phoned for us . |
| 3 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 4 | There were a lot of crows when we went for a walk before flying round . |
| 5 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |
| 6 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 7 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 8 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 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 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When we asked for a script from that side from the beginning , it did n't come . |
| 13 | We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service . |
| 14 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 15 | When we stopped for a picnic lunch we were pestered by a cheeky jackdaw which squabbled with seagulls for its share in the scraps of our sandwiches . |
| 16 | ‘ When we entered into a sponsorship agreement with the Rugby World Cup Limited , no one believed that the event would be such an outstanding success . |
| 17 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 18 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 19 | It was just a bedsit she had early in our marriage when we parted for a while . |
| 20 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 21 | ‘ I just do n't understand it , ’ he laughed , when we chatted about a career which has been chequered to say the least . |
| 22 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 23 | Cos we moved to ninety five , was n't built when we moved into a hundred and eleven |
| 24 | Islander was snug in her berth in Hythe Marina when we called on a dull and almost windless day shortly before Christmas last year . |
| 25 | The only treat we allowed ourselves was a bar of chocolate each when we called at a petrol station , ’ says Solowka . |